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For Immediate Release
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SID
2001 Keynote Speakers Plot Strategies for Getting
Large Flat Panels Into the Home
February 26,
2001 - The keynote addresses at the Society for Information
Display's 32nd Annual Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition (SID
2001) will address one of the display industry's abiding
challenges: creating a mass market for large and beautiful, but
expensive, flat-panel displays. The symposium, recognized as the
international display industry's leading event, will be held at
the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California from June
3 - 8, 2001.
In the first of
two keynote addresses to be given on the morning of Tuesday,
June 5, Claude M. Leglise, Vice President of Intel's New
Business Group and General Manager of the Home Products Group,
will speak on new opportunities for displays in the home. Then,
Dr. Yoshito Tsunoda, Executive Vice President of Fujitsu Hitachi
Plasma (FHP) Display, Ltd., will present ALIS PDP - Key Device
for a Digital Wonderland in 21st Century. FHP, which was
established last July by the merging of Fujitsu's and Hitachi's
plasma display panel (PDP) operations, has been concentrating on
creating a new digital-PDP HDTV market by using its ALIS
addressing technology that produces bright images relatively
inexpensively. FHP is planning to release three ALIS PDPs in
2001 for digital HDTV use. At 32 and 37 inches on the diagonal,
two of those panels are smaller, and presumably less expensive,
than most other PDPs. In his talk, Tsunoda will describe FHP's
business strategy and the product concept of relatively
small-screen digital HDTV receivers using ALIS PDPs.
With 480 booths
reserved to date, the SID 2001 exhibition promises to be the
largest display show ever held in North America, and the Display
Technology Showcase (DTS) will be back with an even wider
variety of display and component technologies.
Display Week will
kick off with half-day short courses on Sunday June 3 and a
program of 90-minute seminars on Monday June 4, which are an
expansion of last year's very well attended format that stressed
tracks keyed to hot industry trends, including liquid-crystal
displays, OLEDs, and microdisplays. The seminars are being
taught by a remarkable collection of instructors, including Ross
Young (Display Search), who leads off with the traditional and
very popular display market survey, Gregg Crawford (Brown
Univ.), Fujio Okomura (NEC), Jun Souk (Samsung), Chris Chinnock
(Insight Media), Matthias Pfeiffer (Three Five Systems), and the
legendary Aron Vecht (Univ. of Greenwich). The Seminars continue
on Friday with Terry Scheffer, Juergen Nehring, and industry
icon Larry Weber, among others. "Two particularly timely
Friday seminars are Digital Interface Standards for HDTV by Mark
Eyer (Sony) and Digital Interfaces for Displays by Bob Myers
(Hewlett-Packard)," said Seminar Chair Dave Eccles (Sony).
"In the past, some people have tended to think of the
Friday Seminars as an afterthought. This year, we've made a
point of scheduling some of the strongest seminars on Friday,
including Scheffer and Nehring's now-classic tutorial on STN-LCD
technology, Weber's plasma seminar, and the two
digital-interface seminars," he said.
A rich
multi-track menu of technical symposium papers, vendor exhibits,
application sessions, roundtable discussions, and special events
held from Tuesday June 5th to Thursday June 7th will provide all
designers, manufacturers, marketers, integrators, and end users
of displays with rewarding choices, whatever their technical
interests. The technical sessions, containing 299 papers, will
be anchored with 39 invited papers.
At the Wednesday
luncheon, the Sixth Annual SID/Information Display Display of
the Year Awards will be presented. The winners of this year's
Gold Awards are eMagin's OLED-on-silicon microdisplay, InViso's
e-Case microdisplay-based hand-held display, and DigiLens's
Application-Specific Integrated Filter" (ASIF").
For SID 2001
registration and hotel information, call Mark Goldfarb,
Palisades Convention Management, 411 Lafayette Street, 2nd
Floor, New York, NY 10003. Tel: (212) 460-8090, ext. 202, Fax
(212) 460-5460, email mgoldfarb@pcm411.com.
The Society for
Information Display is an international society devoted to the
advancement of display technology, manufacturing, and
applications, with headquarters at 31 East Julian Street, San
Jose, California 95112; website www.sid.org.
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Calendar
editors, please note: The Society for Information Display's 2001
International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition (SID 2001) will
take place June 3-8 at the San Jose Convention Center in San
Jose, California. For registration information contact Mark
Goldfarb, Palisades Convention Management, 411 Lafayette Street,
2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003. Tel: (212) 460-8090, ext. 202,
Fax (212) 460-5460, email mgoldfarb@pcm411.com.
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