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SID Receives
$100 Thousand to Create Educational Endowment Fund
San Jose,
California, June 17 - The Society for Information Display (SID),
an international non-profit society devoted to the advancement
of display technology, manufacturing, and applications, with
headquarters in San Jose, announced today it has received a
donation of $100,000 from a Japanese company.
Larry F. Weber,
Chair of SID's Honors and Awards Committee, said the donation,
which was received on March 30, would be used to begin an
Educational Endowment Fund. The fund's capital will be
preserved, and the interest will be used for student
scholarships, student research grants, faculty research grants,
and curriculum development. A new SID committee will be
established to supervise the fund, Weber said, and seek new
donors, large and small.
The donation was
made by Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (SEL) of
Kanagawa, Japan, and was formalized at a luncheon held during
the recent SID Symposium in Seattle and attended by SEL
president Shumpei Yamazaki, SID President Shigeo Mikoshiba,
well-known LCD innovator Prof. Shunsuke Kobayashi, and Dr.
Weber.
SID President
Mikoshiba said, "SID is the leading international technical
society in the area of electronic information displays, and for
some time we have wanted to do more to encourage displays
education, research, and curriculum development. This generous
donation will allow us to do that. By energetically encouraging
additional donations to the SID Educational Endowment Fund, we
hope to make a significant impact on display education,
research, and curriculum development around the
world."
The Society for
Information Display was founded in 1964 as a technical society
consisting mostly of cathode-ray-tube designers in the
California avionics industry. Its membership has now grown to
6000 professionals in the global display industry, located from
Osaka to Eindhoven, from Stuttgart to Nanjing. The industry
produces liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) for products from
cell-phones to computer monitors and large-screen TVs, plasma
display panels (PDPs) for public information displays and
large-screen TVs, small imagers for front and rear projection
displays, CRTs for monitors and television, and emerging display
technologies such as organic light-emitting-diode (OLED) and
flexible displays. The industry's sales are estimated to reach
$66 billion this year, rising to $74 billion in 2005, according
to market research firm DisplaySearch, making it one of the most
rapidly growing segments of the electronics industry.
The Society for
Information Display has its international headquarters at 610
South Second Street, San Jose, California 95112; website www.sid.org.
For further information about the SID Educational Endowment
Fund, including how to contribute to it, contact Larry F. Weber
at larryweber@ieee.org.
