John Rupp

John Rupp served as Vice President of the Americas Region of the SID during the period 2004 - 2006. He has been actively involved in the development of display technology at Boeing since 1978 and started independent research and development (IR&D) activity for the application of color flat panel displays in the flight deck and passenger entertainment systems of Boeing airplanes at that time. That activity included initiating contacts with the leading suppliers of LCD technology in Japan and elsewhere to encourage and develop interest in avionics applications. Mr. Rupp served as technical lead for the implementation of color LCD display technology in the flight deck of the Boeing 7J7 airplane and announced the Boeing intent of introducing color active matrix LCDs on Boeing commercial airplane flight decks to the international display community in an invited paper at Japan Display '86. As a member of the Technical Fellowship at Boeing, John was responsible for the resolution of active matrix LCD display technology development and production issues for all airplane models within the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group.

At Honeywell, Mr. Rupp managed the LCD Technology Team that developed the first certified color LCD primary flight displays (normally black) for the Boeing 777 and 737NG. With Rockwell Collins, he served as Technical Director for Primary Flight Displays and led the display technology team that developed normally white LCD primary flight display technology for commercial airplane flight deck applications.

At Intel Corporation, John was involved in the evaluation of emerging display technologies and displays research and development at Intel's Corporate Technology Group (CTG) and dealt with issues related to the implementation of color active matrix LCD and OLED flat panel display technology in consumer products. John also served as Director of Technology Strategy for Information Display at Corning Incorporated which involved establishing corporate technology direction and setting display technology strategy for Corning's sector-level Information Display businesses.

In his current position with Motorola Incorporated, John has responsibility for the selection of appropriate display technology and developing display technology strategy for Motorola's full line of enterprise mobility products.

John has been involved in electronics product design and development for 36 years and flat panel display technology for the past 28 years. He has been a member of the Society for Information Display (SID) since 1980, started the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Chapter of the SID and for seven years served as PNW Chapter Director. He is a member of the Display Systems Committee for SID 2009, has served as a member of the SID Chapter Formation Committee and also as Chair of the SID Communications Committee for development of the design of the look of the SID World Wide Web Site and resolution of issues concerning website appearance and content. John also developed the PNW chapter website and most recently the Americas Region Website, consolidating Americas regional information in one place and improving communication for the Americas region and all SID members. He was also a member of the Organizing CMTE for ADEAC 2004 and serves as "Americas Program Chair" for EuroDisplay 2007 in Moscow. To fulfill a VP Americas initiative, John worked to include the Latin America display community and start the Latin America chapter of the SID, making the region for the first time truly an "Americas" region. John received a B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Northrop Institute of Technology, has six issued U.S. display-related patents and has published three technical papers.

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