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For Immediate Release
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International
Display Workshops Move to Fukuoka for 2003; Features Special
Topical Session on Electronic Paper
September 8, 2003
– The 10th International Display Workshops (IDW) will be held
December 3-5 at the new Fukuoka International Congress Center in
Fukuoka. The city sits on the north coast of Kyushu, the most
southerly of Japan’s major islands, on scenic Hakata Bay. The
Workshops, sponsored by the Society for Information Display
(SID) and the Institute of Image Information and Television
Engineers (ITE), constitute one of the major international
display technology conferences on the annual calendar.
Kyushu Island has
recently been named Japan’s "PDP Island." In terms
of business, culture, and industry, Fukuoka is the most active
city in Western Japan. The city, having served as a gateway for
the importing of continental Asian cultures into Japan since
ancient times, has a rich cultural and architectural tradition.
In 2000, Asia Week rated Fukuoka as the city with the best
quality of life in Asia.
The Workshops’
Keynote Address will be Industrial Applications of Carbon
Nanotubes by S. Iijima (Meijo Univ., NEC, AIST and JST/SORST).
Among the major invited addresses will be:
The technical
program will consist of 11 workshops on the following display
and human factors topics: Liquid Crystal Science and
Technologies; Active Matrix Displays; FPD Manufacturing,
Materials and Components; CRTs; Plasma Displays; EL Displays;
LEDs and Phosphors; Field Emission Displays; Organic EL
Displays; 3D/Hyper-Realistic Displays and Systems; Applied
Vision and Human Factors; and Projection and Large-Area
Displays, and their Components. In addition, there will be a
special Topical Session on Electronic Paper covering electronic
paper, paper-like displays, and rewritable paper. The
presentations in the session will cover concepts, hardware,
software, materials, human interfaces, systems, applications,
and overviews.
A banquet and
reception will encourage conversation and networking; and there
will be an exhibition of display devices, materials, components,
manufacturing and measuring equipment, and related products for
display devices. The exhibitions at IDW tend to be informal, and
discussions at exhibitors’ booths are encouraged.
Getting There
-- Fukuoka is about five hours from Tokyo by JR Shinkansen
railway. Fukuoka Airport is 1 hour 15 minutes from Kansai
International Airport, and 2 hours 10 minutes from Narita
International Airport by air. Access from Fukuoka Airport to the
city center is convenient: Hakata JR Station, the city’s
central station, is just five minutes by subway.
The Society for
Information Display is an international society devoted to the
advancement of display technology, manufacturing, and
applications, with headquarters at 610 South 2nd Street, San
Jose, California 95112; website www.sid.org.
IDW ’03
registration and hotel information, and a complete Advance
Program, will soon be available at http://idw.ee.uec.ac.jp/regist.html.
Calendar
editors, please note: IDW ‘03 will take place December
3-5, 2003 at the Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka,
Japan. For registration information, visit http://idw.ee.uec.ac.jp/regist.html.
