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SID Breaks New
Ground with ADEAC - a Conference for Design Engineers and
Application Developers
San Jose,
California, July 15 - With the First Americas Display
Engineering and Applications Conference (ADEAC '04) - to be held
October 25-27 at the Doral Tesoro Hotel & Golf Club in Fort
Worth, Texas - the Society for Information Display is breaking
new ground. This is a conference for designers, product
managers, and marketers who develop display-containing products
for a wide variety of applications.
The industry is
supporting ADEAC enthusiastically. Keynote addresses will be
given by John Van Scoter (Vice President, Texas
Instruments), who is in charge of TI's DLP™ program, and Nikhil
Balram (Chief Technology Officer, National Semiconductor),
who is responsible for development of advanced ICs and chip-sets
for displays. Van Scoter's address is DLP™ Technology:
Innovating and Differentiating in a Competitive Landscape;
Balram's is Digital TV Electronics: Major Advances Bringing
the Cinema Experience into Your Home.
A rich program of
tutorials and technical sessions is designed to help
professionals evaluate display technologies, find the best
display for their system, and integrate that display reliably
and cost-effectively, said Program Chair Stephen Atwood (Three
Five Systems). Among the tutorials are:
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Overview
and Design of Handheld Displays,
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Designing
Projector Products,
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Managing
Color Performance in LCD Products,
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Graphic
and Video Electronics, and
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Designing
an LCD-based Product.
The 14 sessions
of oral technical presentations include Digital TV Systems,
Backlight Technology, Graphic Conversions and Digital
Interfaces, Technologies for Portable Devices, Military and
Avionic Displays, Projection Display Systems, and Digital
Signage.
An evening
session, Making a Digital TV Consumers Will Buy; will
feature a panel of distinguished display designers, marketers,
product managers, and electronics retailers, who will address
all aspects of this multi-billion-dollar challenge, and answer
your questions. Among the panelists will be plasma-display
pioneer Larry Weber, Gary Feather ( Director, Digital AV
Systems, Sharp Laboratories of America), Tom Edwards (SVP,
Consumer Electronics, Pacific Media Associates), Brian Patrick
(Director of Audio-Visual Design, EDI Ltd.), Hugo Steemers
(Director of Strategic Marketing, National Semiconductor), and
moderator Ken Werner (Editor, Information Display).
ADEAC will
provide information on the displays that are available to OEMs
and product designers, on display-device manufacturers, the
characteristics of different displays, procedures for selecting
the best display device for any application, and the display
electronics and components available to OEMs and product
designers. An exhibition will bring attendees face to face with
suppliers of displays, electronics, interconnects, packaging,
and test equipment.
For more
information, see www.sid.org/conf/adeac04/adeac04.html
or contact Mark Goldfarb, Palisades Convention Management. Phone
212/460-8090, ext. 202; fax 212/460-5460, e-mail mgoldfarb@pcm411.com.
To exhibit at ADEAC, phone Kate Dickie at 212/460-8090, ext.
215, or e-mail her at kdickie@pcm411.com.
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.
Calendar
editors, please note: The first Americas Display Engineering
and Applications Conference (ADEAC) will take place October
25-27 at the Doral Tesoro Hotel & Golf Club in Fort Worth,
Texas. For registration information contact Mark Goldfarb,
Palisades Convention Management, 411 Lafayette Street, New York,
NY 10003. Phone (212) 460-8090, ext. 202; fax (212) 460-5460;
e-mail mgoldfarb@pcm411.com;
or log onto www.sid.org/conf/adeac04/adeac04.html.
