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June 2007 
Volume 3, Number 5

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HEADLINES 

1. Display Week 2007 Nears Record Highs for Attendance, Exhibitors

2. Make Your Nominations Now for SID's 2007 Awards

3. SID Welcomes Newest Senior Member, Jean-Noël Perbet

4. Relive Display Week with Recordings of This Year's Proceedings

5. Upcoming SID Events

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Display Week 2007 Nears Record Highs for Attendance, Exhibitors

The sunny shores of Long Beach, California welcomed nearly 7,500 visitors last month for the Society for Information Display's 45th annual Display Week.

Held at the Long Beach Convention Center from May 20-25, Display Week 2007 was one of the most successful in the event's history. This year's Symposium drew 2,644 attendees, who enjoyed 279 oral and 210 poster papers. The Symposium and Exhibition combined attracted 7,420 people, and the Exhibit Hall totaled 57,400 square feet of exhibits with 574 booths.

"This year's show was one of the three largest in the Society's history," said Bill Klein, president of Palisades Convention Management, which handles registration for the conference. "We expect next year's Display Week in Los Angeles to be even bigger."

Additional statistics from this year's show will soon be posted on both the 2007 and 2008 conference Web sites. Please check www.sid2007.org or www.sid2008.org for updates.

Make Your Nominations Now for SID's 2007 Awards

Don't miss your chance to nominate the year's best and brightest for special recognition from the Society for Information Display. The deadline for nominations for SID's 2007 Awards is Oct. 12, 2007.

More information on the following awards is available online at http://www.sid.org/awards/indawards.html:

The Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize is awarded for an outstanding technical achievement in, or contribution to, display technology.

The Jan Rajchman Prize is awarded for an outstanding scientific or technical achievement in, or contribution to, research on flat-panel displays.

The Otto Schade Prize in Display Performance and Image Quality is awarded for an outstanding scientific or technical achievement in, or contribution to, the advancement of functional performance and/or image quality of information displays.

The Slottow-Owaki Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Information-Display Education is awarded for outstanding contributions to personnel training in the field of information display.

The Johann Gutenberg Prize is awarded for an outstanding technical achievement in, or contribution to, printer technology.

The Lewis and Beatrice Winner Award for Distinguished service is awarded to one Society member for exceptional and sustained service to SID.

The grade of Fellow is one of unusual professional distinction conferred by the Board of Directors, acting on the recommendation of the Honors and Awards Committee, upon a SID member of outstanding qualifications and experience as a scientist or engineer in the field of information display.

Special Recognition Awards are given to members of the technical and scientific community, not necessarily SID members, for distinguished and valued contributions to the information display field. These awards may be made for contributions in one or more of the following categories:

• Outstanding technical accomplishments
• Outstanding contributions to the literature
• Outstanding service to the Society

Please visit http://www.sid.org/awards/indawards.html or contact Chris King at cnelsonk@comcast.net or sidawards@sid.org for further details. Nomination guidelines will also appear in the July issue of Information Display magazine.

SID Welcomes Newest Senior Member, Jean-Noël Perbet

The SID Board of Directors approved the Society's newest Senior Member, Jean-Noël Perbet, on May 20, 2007. Senior Members are those individuals who are recognized to have made significant technical contributions to the advancement of displays and who have demonstrated active participation in the display community and in SID.

Perbet has worked with the Display lab of the Central Research Laboratory of Thales (Orsay) and Thales Avionics (Bordeaux). He also led the Advanced Studies team that introduced the LCD technology for cockpit applications and developed advanced cockpit concepts, and promoted future avionics systems both for cockpit and cabin in the USA.

He now belongs to the Engineering Directorate of the Cockpit Display System Division of Thales Avionics (Bordeaux), to support future cockpit Display systems for major with airplane manufacturers in collaboration with European partners.

Perbet has been a member of SID France - Club Visu since 1984, where he has held various positions: Director of the French Chapter from 1991-1994, Regional Vice President - Europe from 1994-1996, Chapter Formation Chair from 1997-1998, and Long-Range Planning Committee Chair from 1998-1999. He participates as a lecturer to seminars of the Club Visu and is an active member of the Display of the Year Awards and SID Scientific Committees of the main SID conference and EuroDisplay.

Relive Display Week with Recordings of This Year's Proceedings

Did you miss any of Display Week 2007's valuable seminars? Wish you could have been in two places at once? No single attendee could possibly have attended all of Display Week's nearly 70 Symposium Sessions and 12 Seminar Sessions. But that doesn't mean you have to miss out on any of the conference's great presentations.

SID is dedicated to bringing you the best education in our industry, so this year we have recorded the bulk of the Symposium and all of the Seminar sessions. The Symposium DVD is selling for $150 for Symposium attendees and $375 for non-attendees. Online Access to the proceedings of all 12 Seminar sessions is available for $50 for Monday Seminar attendees and $300 for non-attendees. Non-attendees can also purchase online access to the proceedings of individual Monday seminars for $75 each.

To place your order, please contact Blue Sky Broadcast at (877) 925-8375 or orders@blueskybroadcast.com.

Upcoming SID Events

EuroDisplay 2007
September 17-20, 2007
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia

The EuroDisplay Conference will head to Russia this year for the first time in its 17-year history. EuroDisplay offers a unique opportunity to learn about the research going on today that will pave the way for the most cutting-edge display technologies of tomorrow. The conference, organized this year by SID in cooperation with its Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine chapters, takes place bi-annually on a rotating basis with the International Display Research Conference (IDRC). Workshops, tutorials, and academic papers will be presented this year in the following areas:

• LCDs and other non-emissive displays
• CRTs/FEDs/PDPs
• LEDs/OLEDs/ELDs
• E-Paper/Flexible Displays
• Microdisplays
• Projection Displays
• Electronics and Applied Vision
• Systems, Applications
• Markets

To learn more about this exciting conference or to register, please visit http://eurodisplay.nicko.ru/index.html.

SID Mobile Displays Conference
October 2-3, 2007
Paradise Point Resort and Spa
San Diego, California, USA

SID presents the second Mobile Displays Conference, which will once again explore the business and technology trends for displays used in mobile products like cell phones, PDAs, handheld games, MP3 players, digital still cameras and navigation products. The attendee base will be quite wide, and will include display professionals as well as engineering, marketing and business planners from the following sectors:

• Mobile-phone product design
• Other handheld mobile-system design
• Makers of small displays
• Driver-chip manufacturers for mobile displays
• Display-component makers (i.e., backlights, optical enhancement films, polarizers and drivers)
• Wireless service providers
• Power management
• Graphics and display-system architecture
• Materials and components for mobile displays

Attendance at Mobile Displays 2007 is limited, so don't hesitate-register today at www.sidhottopics.org.

In addition, Mobile Displays 2007 offers a wide variety of sponsorship opportunities to reach all attendees. If you would like to join Qualcomm, Nokia, Samsung SDI, Microvision, and California Micro Devices in sponsoring Mobile Displays 2007, contact ETC Event Management Inc. at 831-402-4227 or info@etc-eventmanagement.com.

14th Annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays
Vehicles and Photons 2007
October 11-12, 2007,
University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI

The Detroit Chapter of the Society for Information Display sponsors this technical symposium to bring together scientists and engineers from the display technology, photonics, and vehicle systems communities. The first call for papers has been issued for Vehicles & Photons 2007. Contributed papers are solicited in the following areas:

• Display technologies applicable to vehicular applications,
• New developments in display technologies and FPD Components (includes, but not limited to OLED, LCD, VFD, MEMs, HUD/transparent/flexible displays, etc.),
• Optical Components and Issues (optical coating, haze, high ambient contrast, luminance & color uniformity, optical modeling),
• Human-Vehicle-Interface,
• Display legibility, visual information issues, driver distraction, driver inputs, human factors issues, optical; capacitive; and tactile interaction,
• Lighting technologies applicable to vehicular implementations,
• Organic and flexible electronics opportunities and developments, including both display and non-display technology
• Nano-materials including nanotechnology for device development and potential applications of nano-materials to display and vehicle related applications
• System Solutions for in car integration and interfaces (includes but not limited to Heads Up Display, Night Vision, Navigation, Multi-Media / Rear Seat Entertainment)
• Displays & Controls
• Simulations & Modeling related to displays & controls
• Display Metrology

All interested authors are invited to submit extended abstracts for presentations, particularly in the areas noted above. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is June 29, 2007. Authors will be notified by July 27, 2007. Authors of accepted papers are expected to submit a complete paper for inclusion in the Conference Book that will be distributed to all attendees at the Symposium. The deadline for receipt of papers is August 31, 2007. All presentations will be collected at the Symposium for inclusion in a CD-ROM that will be distributed to all attendees after the Symposium.

PLEASE SUBMIT A ONE PAGE ABSTRACT TO:
Mark Goldfarb, Vehicle Display 2007
411 Lafayette Street, Suite 201, New York, NY 10003
(212) 460-9700, (212) 460-5460 (fax)
E-mail mgoldfarb@pcm411.com
Abstract submission requirements and more information can be found on the SID Web site: http://www.sidchapters.org/metrodetroit/index.html

Display Applications Conference & Supplier Showcase
October 23-25, 2007
Marriott San Francisco Airport Hotel,
San Francisco, California, USA

The Display Applications Conference & Supplier Showcase is directed to those engineers and managers actively involved in the design and selection of displays for a wide range of product applications. It will feature two tracks each day consisting of presentations given exclusively by invited speakers selected for their expertise and extensive knowledge of their subject matter. The emphasis throughout will be on conveying practical knowledge that can be put to immediate use in the selection of technologies, products and vendors that best meet specific display applications.

In addition to the sessions, an integral part of this conference will be found in the exhibition hall, which will feature exhibitors selected based on their ability to provide attendees with immediately useful vendor contacts for displays and the supporting components needed to design and integrate display modules into their final products. Exhibitors will also have the chance to present their latest technology to attendees through an exclusive forum outside of their booths.

More information on the Display Applications Conference will be available soon; check www.sid.org for updates. If you are interested in exhibiting, contact Danielle Rocco at drocco@pcm411.com or (212) 460-8090 ext. 218.