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Berkoff and
Metakides to Open Eurodisplay 2002 with Dramatic Visions of
Display-Centric Society
Triennial
European Display Event Will Be Held October 1-4 in Nice
July 12, 2002 –
Eurodisplay, the triennial technical conference and exhibition
devoted to research and technology in electronic information
displays, will be held this year October 1-4 at the Acropolis
Convention Center in Nice, France. The technical program will
kick off on Wednesday, October 2 with keynote addresses by Bruce
Berkoff, Executive V.P. for Marketing for LG.Philips LCD in
Seoul, Korea, and George Metakides, Director of Directorate E
(Essential Information Society Technologies and Infrastructures)
of the European Commission’s Information Society Directorate
General. The speakers will present complementary visions of a
world increasingly characterized by pervasive computing and
display-centric environments at work, at home, and at play.
Says Berkoff: “We
are continuing to see more and more features and functionality
embedded onto the display itself – having the PC ‘locked
away in the walls’ to better serve both the user and IT needs.
We have entered a display-centric era where LCDs are at the core
for an ever-increasing number of activities and functions from
computing to home entertainment and more will certainly follow.”
Berkoff will explore the market and technology forces driving
the new display-centric world, and discuss what this might mean
for “display portals” of the future.
According to
Metakides, “Progress made so far is rapidly bringing us
towards the pervasive computing and networking era: with
computing embedded in any/every physical object in our
surroundings and with everything linked together through
seamless communications networks spanning from the home to the
global level. Displays in particular hold the major share of the
final information communication and interaction with users.” A
number of display technologies are funded through the EC’s
Fifth Community Framework Programme (FP), which expires at the
end of this year. Metakides will review these projects and
discuss the objectives of the Sixth FP, which will run from 2003
to 2006.
On Tuesday,
October 1, there will be a day of one-hour tutorial seminars.
Among them will be Bistable LCDs Technology (Alain Boissier,
Nemoptic, France); Cockpit Flat Panel Displays (Jean-Noel Perbet,
Thales Avionics, France); Display Trends for Hand-held
Electronic Products (Robert Akins, Motorola, USA); Human
Perception of Moving Images on TFT-LCD (Eishi Gofuku, Mitsubishi
Electric, Japan); Organic and Polymeric Light-emitting Diode
Technology (Kathleen M. Vaeth, Eastman Kodak, USA);
Manufacturing of PDPs and Roads Toward Performance Improvement
and Cost Reduction (Harm Tolner, Philips Components, The
Netherlands); and Modern Video Processing in the Digital and
Flat Panels World : Deinterlacing, Up-conversion, Format
Control, Motion Rendition and Related Subjects (Sébastien
Weitbruch, Deutsche Thomson Brandt, Germany).
Following the
keynote addresses, a rich three-track program of nearly 200
invited and contributed technical papers – together with a
display technology and product exhibition, author interviews,
and special events – will be held from Wednesday October 2 to
Friday October 4. Eurodisplay 2002 is sponsored by the France
Chapter of the Society for Information Display (SID) and Le Club
Visu. For Eurodisplay 2002 registration and hotel information,
see www.sid.org or www.webxy.com/eurodisplay2002/
or fax Mme J. Verdez, 19 rue Park C'hra, 22700 Saint Quay Perros,
France at +33296233164.
The Society for
Information Display is an international society devoted to the
advancement of display technology, manufacturing, and
applications, with headquarters at 610 South Second Street, San
Jose, California 95112; website www.sid.org.
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Calendar editors, please
note: Eurodisplay 2002 will take place October 1-4 at
the Acropolis Convention Center in Nice, France. For
registration information contact Mme J. Verdez, 19 rue
Park C'hra, 22700 Saint Quay Perros, France. Fax
+33296233164, or log onto www.sid.org
or www.webxy.com/eurodisplay2002/.
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