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For Immediate Release
Contact: Michael Morgenthal
Phone: (212) 460-8090 ext 206
Fax: (212) 460-5460
E-mail: press@sid.org
SID Announces New Slottow-Owaki Prize to
Honor Outstanding
Contributions for Information Display Education
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 4-The Society for Information
Display (SID) announced today the designation of a new
award to honor outstanding contributions to
information-display education. The Slottow-Owaki Prize
will be bestowed upon an educator-including a professor, a
researcher, an engineer, or manager etc.-who has made
outstanding contributions to personnel training in the field
of information display.
The award is named for two late professors-Prof. H. Gene
Slottow and Prof. Kenichi Owaki-who were leaders in
the field of information displays.
Slottow was a professor at the University of Illinois,
where he was an inventor of the plasma display panel (PDP) in
1964. Slottow received the Frances Rice Darne Memorial Award
from SID in 1974 for outstanding technical achievement or
contribution to information displays. He was honored as a
Fellow of the SID and served SID in many capacities,
including: Symposium Chairman, Honors and Awards Chairman,
Academic Committee Chairman and Seminar Chairman.
Owaki worked with Slottow to transfer and license plasma
display technology to Fujitsu Ltd. in 1967-1968. Owaki
invented the Traveling Wave cathode ray tube (CRT) in 1950,
and in that same year, he was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal
from the Japanese government for notable achievement in
scholarship. He was granted a SID Special Recognition Award in
1974, and served as a professor at the Hiroshima Institute of
Technology beginning in 1975. He published three books in
Japanese: Plasma Displays (1983); Creative Approach
to R&D (1983); and Bright and Dark of an Engineer
who Survived the 20th Century (1991).
Winners of the Slottow-Owaki Prize will receive a $2,000
stipend, made possible through a grant of 5 million yen (about
$44,000 USD) from Fujitsu Ltd. and 5 million yen from Dr.
Tsutae Shinoda of Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. About $50,000
will be used to endow the award in perpetuity, while the
remaining amount will be given to the SID Educational
Endowment Fund to provide SID Scholarships to students and SID
Grants for education.
The award joins the lineup of prestigious honors bestowed
by the SID to outstanding innovators in the field of
information displays, including the Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize
for outstanding technical achievement in or contribution to
display technology; the Jan Rajchman Prize for outstanding
scientific or technical achievement in or contribution to
research on flat-panel displays; and the Otto Schade
Prize-awarded for the first time in 2006-for outstanding
scientific or technical achievement in or contribution to the
advancement of the functional performance and/or image quality
of information displays.
The deadline for nominations for 2007 awards is October 13,
2006. For more information on any of the SID Honors and
Awards, including how to submit nominations, visit www.sid.org
and click on "Awards."
ABOUT SID
The Society for Information Display (SID) is the premier
international professional society exclusively devoted to the
advancement of electronic-display technology, manufacturing,
and applications. Its international headquarters are located
at 610 South Second Street, San Jose, CA 95112, U.S.A. Visit
SID online at www.sid.org.
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