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February 2006 
Volume 2, Number 1

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HEADLINES 

1. SID 2006 Keynote Session to Feature Executives from LG.Philips LCD, Matsushita, Qualcomm

2. Astronaut to Deliver "Out of This World" Luncheon Speech at SID 2006

3. Make Your Reservations and Register Now for SID 2006

4. 2006 Business Conference Program Finalized

5. IDRC 2006 Seeks Paper Submissions

6. Vehicle Display 2006 Symposium Issues Call for Papers

7. ADEAC 2006 Publishes First Call For Papers

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SID 2006 Keynote Session to Feature Executives from LG.Philips LCD, Matsushita, Qualcomm

Executives from three major display-industry companies-LG.Philips LCD, Matsushita and Qualcomm-have been confirmed as the keynote speakers at the SID 2006 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition. The speakers will cover a broad range of topics, ranging from liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), to plasma display panel (PDP) technology, to portable displays.

Always one of the highlights of the annual SID Symposium, the Keynote addresses will take place on Tuesday, June 6 from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Following the opening remarks by SID officials, the first speaker, Bock Kwon, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales for LG.Philips LCD, will discuss how consistent technological innovation will continue to drive LCD industry growth, specifically LCD TV, in his talk entitled, "A Perspective on the TFT-LCD Industry."

Next up, Dr. Takeshi Uenoyama, Director of the Advanced Technology Research Laboratories and Image Devices Development Center at Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., will explore plasma-display-panel (PDP) technology, products and business strategies from Panasonic's perspective in his speech, "Large-Size FPD-The Driving Forces for Real Life Viewing Experience at Home."

The final keynote speaker will be Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm Inc. In his talk, "A Revolution in Display Technology: Enabling Next-Generation Wireless Communications," Jacobs will address how mobile devices will transform the way we work and play through the year 2010 and describe the opportunities and challenges presented by today's display technology.

SID 2006 will take place June 4-9 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, USA. For more information on any element of SID 2006, visit www.sid2006.org.

Astronaut Olsen to Deliver "Out of This World" Luncheon Speech at SID 2006

The annual luncheon at the SID 2006 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition promises to be a star-studded affair. That's because Dr. Gregory H. Olsen, Ph.D., who was just the third private citizen to orbit the Earth aboard the International Space Station, has been confirmed as the 2006 luncheon speaker.

Olsen completed 150 orbits of the Earth and traveled almost 4 million weightless miles during his 10-day space voyage in October 2005. Olsen paid $20 million for the privilege of being a passenger on a Russian Soyuz rocket as it brought a new crew to the International Space Station.

Olsen worked as a research scientist at the RCA Labs (Sarnoff Center) form 1972-1983. He developed vapor phase epitaxial crystal growth of optoelectronic devices, including laser diodes and photodetectors for fiberoptic applications based on the material indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs). Olsen has 12 patents and over 100 technical papers to his name, is an IEEE LEOS Fellow and the first recipient of the prestigious IEEE Aron Kressel award.

In 1984, Olsen founded EPITAXX, a fiber-optic detector manufacturer together with Vladimir Ban. It was sold in 1990 for $12 million. In 1992, he founded Sensors Unlimited, a near-infrared camera manufacturer, with Marshall Cohen. Sensors was sold to Finisar Corp. for $600 million in 2000, repurchased by the management team in 2002 for $6 million, then sold again to Goodrich Corp. in 2005 for $60 million.

Currently, he is president of GHO Ventures in Princeton, NJ where he manages his "angel" investments, South African winery, Montana ranch, and performs numerous speaking engagements to encourage children-especially minorities and females-to consider careers in science and engineering. He is active in the New Jersey Technology Counsel (NJTC), NJTC Venture Fund, IEEE and the NJ Commission on Science and Technology.

This year's luncheon will take place Wednesday, June 7 at noon. In addition to the speech by Olsen, the luncheon will also feature the announcement of the 2006 SID/Information Display magazine Display of the Year Awards, the industry's most prestigious honor. More than 100 products were nominated for the 2006 Display of the Year Awards, and the six winners will be revealed at the luncheon.

For more information about any function at SID 2006, visit www.sid2006.org.

Make Your Reservations and Register Now for SID 2006

Save money and avoid long lines at SID 2006 by registering in advance for the world's preeminent display-technology event. Registering in advance is easy: Visit http://www.sid.org/conf/sid2006/options.html, where you can register online, or download forms to fax or mail in your registration. The advance registration deadline is May 19.
While you're on the registration site, be sure to make your hotel reservations at the San Francisco Marriott, the official hotel of SID 2006. Space is filling up quickly, as more than half of the allotted rooms have already been reserved, so make your reservations soon! Once the Marriott fills up, all reservations will flow to the other conference hotel, the Hyatt, which currently has good room availability. To make a reservation visit the conference web site at: http://www.sid2006.org and click on "Housing."

2006 Business Conference Program Finalized

More than a dozen top display industry executives will offer their insights on the ever-changing display marketplace at the 2006 SID Business Conference, which will take place Monday, June 5 and Tuesday, June 6 as part of the 2006 SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

"We're in a very dynamic period in the display industry, so having updates on how the market is doing has great value in itself," said Conference Chair Aris Silzars. "But in addition to that, we're trying to bring in new speakers and new perspectives, and striving to feature a cross-section of the display industry, so it should be of high interest to past attendees as well as new ones."

This is the fourth year for the SID Business Conference, which was expanded to two days in 2005. Silzars hopes that the combination of the exciting slate of speakers with SID 2006's location in tech-savvy San Francisco, will attract 1,000 attendees to this year's Business Conference.

The Business Conference will kick off on Monday, June 5 with a talk by Bob O'Donnell, Vice President of Clients and Displays, International Display Corp., entitled "Beyond the Silver Box: Overcoming Commoditization." O'Donnell will take a forward-thinking look at what it will take to be successful in the increasingly crowded flat-panel TV marketplace, touching on major issues confronting the industry, such as LCD vs. Plasma, 1080p resolution, "smart" TVs, and more.

The rest of the Business Conference lineup is as follows:

Monday, June 5

• Intel - Enriching and Accelerating the Digital Home, Mike Buckley, Director of Strategic Investments, Intel Capital
• Flat-Panel Display and TV Market Outlook, Ross Young, President, DisplaySearch, an NPD Group Company
• The Tectonics of Large Television Displays, Leslie G. Polgar, CEO of CRLO Displays Inc.
• Price Erosion: An Asset or Liability for the Flat-Panel Industry, Sweta Dash, Director, LCD and Projection Research, iSuppli Corp.
• Bridging Mobile Communications for the Connected Consumer, Giovanni Montesanti, Senior Director, Global Strategy, Marketing & Communications, Philips Semiconductor - Mobile Display Systems
• Large-Screen FPD-TV Competitiveness Analysis, Peter Kwon, President, Display Bank
• The Power of Plasma, Jim Palumbo, Plasma Display Coalition
• Catch the Wave: New Emerging Electronics Trends for Full HDTV, Bruce Berkoff, President & CEO, Enuclia Semiconductor Inc.
• Visualize an Essentially Plastic Solution, Peter Le Masurier, Global Market Development Manager - Displays, Eastman Chemical Ltd., Shanghai Office

Tuesday, June 6

• SID Keynote Session

• Solution (Processing) for OLED Success, Bill Feehery, President, OLED Business, DuPont Displays Inc.

• LCD Substrates: Current Status & Future Innovations, Peter Bocko, Division Vice President and Director, Commercial Technology Display Group, Corning Inc.

In addition, Joe Virginia, Vice President of Samsung LCD Business - Americas Region, who will give an as-yet untitled lecture on LCD expansion and information displays.

On June 5, Mary Lou Jepsen, Chief Technology Officer at the One Laptop per Child Nonprofit Association, will offer a special luncheon discussion on the organization's goal of creating $100 laptops for children in rural and developing areas. Following the completion of the program on June 5, Samsung will sponsor a networking reception.

The Business Conference will close on Tuesday, June 6, with what promises to be a lively debate between SID President-Elect and former Plasmaco President Larry Weber and Samsung LCD Business Vice President Brian Berkeley. Entitled "And the Winner Is…", the discussion will aim to settle the issue of which of the current display technologies will be the ultimate winner in the marketplace.

The Tuesday session of the Business Conference will be conducted jointly with the SID Investors Conference, which will take place June 6-7. Those registered for the Business Conference will be able to attend all Investors Conference functions on Tuesday, June 6, and all Investors Conference attendees will be able to attend the Business Conference sessions on June 6. The agenda for the Investors Conference has yet to be finalized, though it will start with an Investment Banker Panel lunch discussion on June 6.

For more information about the Business and Investors Conferences, visit www.sid2006.org.

IDRC 2006 Seeks Paper Submissions

The 26th International Display Research Conference (IDRC), which will take place September 18-21, 2006, at the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, has published its final Call for Papers. Papers in all areas of display research will be considered for presentation at IDRC 2006. The deadline for paper submission is May 10, 2006.

The conference will feature a technical symposium where attendees can learn about the latest display research results from around the world, and evening programs that will include a look at the pioneers of display research at the RCA labs. IDRC will also feature workshops on flexible displays as well as "An Introduction to Display Technologies," which will include a unique hands-on opportunity for attendees to build LCDs at Kent State's Liquid Crystal Institute laboratories.

In addition, conference attendees will have the opportunity for lab-based author interviews and technology discussions, and an open-house tour of the Liquid Crystal Institute.

To view the call for papers, which includes instructions on abstract submissions, please visit www.sid.org/conf/idrc2006/call.pdf.

Vehicle Display 2006 Symposium Issues Call for Papers

The 13th annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays, organized by SID's Detroit Chapter, has published its first Call for Papers for the event, which will take place October 12-13, 2006, in the Detroit Metropolitan Area.

The symposium, entitled Vehicles and Photons 2006, will focus on the intersection of vehicular display technology and photonic devices and systems.

Submission of abstracts in any of the following symposium topics is encouraged:

• Display technologies applied to vehicular applications
• New developments in display technologies and FPD Components (includes, but not limited to OLED, LCD, VFD, ELD, MEMs, HUD/transparent/flexible displays, etc.)
• Modifications of commercial FPD technologies to achieve automotive compliance
• Optical components and issues (optical coating, haze, high ambient contrast, luminance & color uniformity, optical modeling)
• Human factors and metrology issues (display legibility, visual information issues, driver distraction)
• NEW THIS YEAR! Lighting technologies applicable to vehicular implementations
• NEW THIS YEAR! Organic- and flexible-electronics opportunities and developments, including both display and non-display technology
• NEW THIS YEAR! Nano-materials including nanotechnology for device development and potential applications of nano-materials to display- and vehicle-related applications
• System solutions for in-car visual information interface (includes but not limited to Heads Up Display, Night Vision, Telematics, Multi-Media, Video communication and interface).

All interested authors are invited to submit extended one-page abstracts for presentations, particularly in the areas noted above. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is June 30, 2006. To submit abstracts, or for more information, contact Mark Goldfarb at (212) 460-9700, mgoldfarb@pcm411.com.

ADEAC 2006 Publishes First Call For Papers

The third Americas Display Engineering and Applications Conference (ADEAC), which will take place October 23-26, 2006, in Atlanta, Georgia, has published its first Call for Papers. Co-sponsored by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), ADEAC provides a venue to keep industry professionals up-to-date with the ever-changing world of display electronics and components. The conference will also serve as a forum for papers on any topic focusing on display engineering and its applications.

Suggested topics include: Display Markets and End-User Product Needs; Putting Visual Science to Work; Managing Color Performance in LCDs; Flat-Panel Measurements and Standards; Display Interface Standards; Analog Interface Electronics and Graphics Conversions; Backlights and Related Hardware; Digital Interfaces and Digital TV Systems Including HDTV; Power and Signal Management; Display Enhancement and Optics for High-Ambient and Night-Vision Applications; Input/Output Devices Interfacing with Display Modules and Products; Flat Panels and Systems for Electronic Signage; Displays and Requirements for Portable Display Systems Employed in Cellular Phones, Digital Cameras, and PDAs; Design of Medical Display Systems; Military and Avionics Displays and Systems; Environmental Performance of Display Systems; Touch-screen Integrated Display Systems; Projection-display Systems; Innovative Display Systems and System Architectures; Components for Projection Systems; and Emerging Display Applications and Systems.

Papers will be accepted for both oral and poster presentation. Please e-mail a 35- to 50-word abstract, suitable for publication in the Advance Program, along with a technical summary (two- to- four pages) to Mark Goldfarb, mgoldfarb@pcm411.com, (212) 460-8090 ext. 202.