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September 2007 
Volume 3, Number 8

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HEADLINES 

1. Industry Veteran Tom Miller Named New Executive Director of SID

2. Early Registration Deadline Extended for Display Applications Conference & Supplier Showcase

3. Deadline for SID Award Nominations Rapidly Approaching

4. Reminder: Abstract Deadline for Display Week 2008: The SID International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition is December 3

5. SID Welcomes Newest Senior Members

6. Upcoming SID Events

7. SID Chapter News

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Industry Veteran Tom Miller Named New Executive Director of SID

The Society for Information Display (SID) announced this month that 30-year electronics-industry veteran Tom Miller has been appointed as its new executive director.

Miller has been involved with SID since becoming the vice president of marketing for Fujitsu in 1992. He is currently a founding partner of Endeavor Innovation Partners, a technology intellectual property consulting company, and is also a Principal with E3 Innovation Inc. Tom will be working with SID on a part-time basis until February 2008.

"I am aiming for a better and more in depth understanding of the needs of the members and how to make the society attractive to a larger cross-section of the electronics industry," Miller said. "My first acts are going to be focused on interviewing the membership on a global basis and getting a better appreciation for what they see as the real strengths of the society and where they would like to see it improve."

Miller was introduced to the SID Board of Directors at the September EuroDisplay 2007 conference in Moscow, Russia. He said he was anxious to start talking to the chairs of SID's 28 worldwide chapters who attended the conference, as well as to talk to other members.

Miller said that he will focus on increasing membership and making SID more responsive to the needs of its members; improve the content and applicability of all SID publications; and to increase participation in the society's trade shows and symposia.

"Over the past 15 years, I have seen the Society grow dramatically," he stated. "Now, the challenge is, what new frontiers can we conquer? We are already in 28 chapters on a global basis around the world-I want to know what communities don't we serve, and how can we serve our existing communities better?"

Miller urged members of SID and others in the electronics community to share their thoughts, concerns and ideas on the role of the society with him by e-mailing him directly at tmiller@sid.org.

Miller has worked in electronics for more than 30 years, with a concentration on flat-panel displays since 1992. Since 1998, Tom has advised or participated in the formation of more than 15 high technology start-ups, most recently as President and General Manager of DuPont Displays passive matrix polymer OLED displays headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA; interim COO for Anadigm, a field programmable analog array company headquartered in Tempe, AZ; and as founding CEO for Pliable Technologies, a planned spin-out of the ASU Flexible Display Center and Macrotechnology Works. Additionally, Tom currently serves on the Board of Directors for Project InVision International and serves as an advisor to numerous other public and private companies in the displays, semiconductor and software industries.

At Fujitsu Microelectronics from 1992 to 1996 Tom initiated efforts to restructure US semiconductor operations, reducing operating costs by more than $20 million while increasing sales from less than $190 million to over $600 million within three years.

Tom's earliest successes were at Texas Instruments where he led business development efforts to develop electronic sound generators and controllers for integration into leading consumer electronic products for the toy and game industry.

Tom later led efforts to commercialize the first RISC microprocessors, initially at NCR and then at Fairchild, followed by his first entrepreneurial efforts with Integrated CMOS Systems (sold to Toshiba) and VIA Technologies (now a major international IC company in Taiwan).

Tom began his career as a hardware and firmware designer for microprocessor systems and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Early Registration Deadline Extended for Display Applications Conference & Supplier Showcase

There's still time to save on your registration for the 2007 Display Applications Conference & Supplier Showcase. The early registration deadline has been extended to Oct. 12, so be sure to visit www.displayapps2007.org now to sign up now and save $25.

The Display Apps conference is the world's premier display event focusing on the integration of today's display applications and components. This year's conference will take place at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel in Burlingame, California October 23-25.

You can register for the conference and make your hotel reservations online by logging on to www.displayapps2007.org. As always, you'll also find program details and information on how to exhibit at the Display Applications Conference.

The conference, which will take place October 23-25, 2007 in San Francisco, features presentations by experts from companies such as Apple, Sun Microsystems, Panasonic, Sony, Tektronix and Qualcomm. Speakers will discuss every step in the process of how to specify and design displays, making the conference the ultimate venue for OEMs from the consumer, industrial, medical, military and other markets who are eager to integrate displays into their products.

The program for the Display Apps Conference features 12 exciting, informative sessions running on two parallel tracks starting on October 23. Sessions will cover everything from the basics of how to select the appropriate display for a product, to in-depth analysis of individual display technologies (including LCD, plasma, OLED, E-paper, MEMS, projection, and 3-D), applications and components. The Display Apps Conference will truly give you the tools you need to understand how displays can fit into your business plans.

Additionally, attendees will have a chance to put their newfound knowledge to work sourcing display products at the exclusive Supplier Showcase, which will run October 23-25. Among the companies on hand will be 3M, Westar, Gunze, and I-Chips.

Deadline for SID Awards Nominations Rapidly Approaching

Don't miss your chance to honor your friends and colleagues for outstanding work in the display industry by making your nomination for the 2008 SID awards. Members of SID have until October 12, 2007 to submit nominations for the awards, which will be presented at Display Week 2008 in Los Angeles.

Nominations will be accepted for all of the following awards:

SID Fellow -The candidate shall have been a member of SID for five years (the last 3 consecutively) and shall have made a widely recognized and significant advancement to the field. The nomination must be supported and signed by at least five SID members in good standing.

Special Recognition Award - Granted to members of the technical, scientific, and business community (not necessarily SID members) for distinguished and valued contributions to the information-display field. The award may be made for contributions in one or more of the following categories:

a. outstanding technical contributions
b. outstanding contributions to the literature
c. outstanding service to the society
d. outstanding entrepreneurial accomplishments
e. outstanding achievements in education

Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize - Awarded for outstanding technical achievement in, or contribution to, display technology (not necessarily a SID member).

Jan Rajchman Prize - Awarded for an outstanding scientific or technical achievement in, or contribution to research on flat-panel displays (not necessarily a SID member).

Otto Schade Prize in Display Performance and Image Quality - Awarded for outstanding scientific or technical achievement in, or contribution to, the advancement of functional performance and/or image quality of information displays (not necessarily a SID member).

Slottow-Owaki Prize - Awarded for outstanding contribution to information display education (not necessarily a SID member).

Lewis & Beatrice Winner Award - Awarded to a SID member for exceptional and sustained service to SID.

The nomination forms can be found through www.sid.org or at http://www.sid.org/awards/nomination.html.

Please send nominations to Chris King, SID Honors and Awards Chair at cnelsonk@comcast.net.

REMINDER: Abstract Deadline for Display Week 2008: The SID International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition is December 3

The deadline to submit abstract paper submissions for Display Week 2008 is December 3, 2007. The conference will take place May 18-23, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.

Original papers on all aspects of the research, engineering, application, evaluation, and utilization of displays will be considered.

Once again, SID expects flat-panel television technologies such as PDP, LCD, and LCoS projection to be hot topics this year. OLEDs will also be highlighted, as well as technology for low-power-consumption and higher-performance displays for battery-powered applications.

Paper submissions are encouraged in any of the following categories:

• Active-Matrix Devices
• Applications
• Applied Vision/Human Factors
• Display Electronics
• Display Manufacturing
• Display Measurement
• Display Systems
• Emissive Displays
• Field-Emission Displays (FEDs)
• Liquid-Crystal and Other Non-Emissive Displays
• Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)
• Projection Displays

For more details, submission guidelines, or to read the full Call for Papers online, please visit www.sid2008.org.

SID Welcomes Newest Senior Members

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth A. Dean of Motorola and Professor Qiong-Hua Wang of Sichuan University, who have been named the Society's newest senior members.

Dr. Dean has been the technical project leader for Motorola's nanotube-based display program. Dr. Dean has demonstrated color, full-motion video display prototypes with nanotube technology. He has also been awarded numerous patents, and has authored more than 10 papers in the last 5 years.

Prof. Wang has been active in display related research for more than 10 years. Her Ph.D. thesis is on CRT-based projection TVs, and she completed 3 years of post-doctoral research on LCDs and up-conversion projection displays. She has spent the last four years as a faculty member at Sichuan University developing 3D displays.

Upcoming SID Events

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

The Society for Information Display's second annual Mobile Displays Conference is next week. Building on the very successful conference in 2006, Mobile Displays 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 conference will attract attendees from the display industry, in addition to engineering, marketing and business planners from the following sectors:

• Mobile phone product design
• Other handheld mobile system designers
• Small display makers
• Driver chips for mobile displays
• Display component makers including backlights, optical enhancement
  films, polarizers, and drivers
• Wireless service providers
• Power management
• Graphics and display system architecture
• Materials and components for mobile displays

If you are involved in any aspect of today's mobile displays business, you need to be at this conference. Join us to learn, meet, and network with the decision makers and experts in mobile displays.

Thanks to the SID Mobile Displays 2007 Sponsors: QUALCOMM, Nokia, 3M Touch Systems, California Micro Devices, Samsung SDI, Microvision, and Westar

To see a final agenda or to register go to www.sidhottopics.org. Registration ends on Friday, September 28 at 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time.

For more information on SID Mobile Displays please contact ETC Event Management, Inc. at 831-402-4227 or info@etc-eventmanagement.com.

Vehicles and Photons2007
October 11-12, 2007
Dearborn, MI

The program for this Vehicles and Photons 2007, which will take place October 11 and 12, 2007 at the Fairlane Center at the University of Michigan at Dearborn, promises an exciting line up of speakers, presentations, tutorials and exhibits. Highlights of this year's program will include:

• Welcoming remarks from Symposium Chair Mark Larry of the Ford Motor Company
• A Keynote Address by Ben DiCicco, Senior Manager of Daimler Chrysler Automotive
• Tabletop exhibitions from companies including 3M, Axon Cable, Digital Dash, Display Device Consultants LLC., Eldim SA, Gunze USA, HOLOEYE Systems Inc., MacDermid Autotype Ltd., Noritake Co. Inc., OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Inc., Q-Lab Corporation, Quantum Data Inc., and SMK Electronics Corp.

In addition, this year's six sessions will focus on:

• The Automotive Market
• Automotive Enhancements
• Component New Development
• Systems/Applications
• Human Factors/Metrology
• SAE/Display Interface

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. For more information on the conference, please visit http://www.vehicledisplay2007.org.

15th Color Imaging Conference:
Color Science and Engineering Systems, Technologies and Applications
November 5-9, 2007
Hotel Albuquerque
Albuquerque, NM

Co-sponsored by SID and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), CIC15 will be held November 5-9, 2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

This single-track meeting, complemented by an interactive paper session, tutorials, and robust networking events, features in-depth papers covering the latest usage of color in medical imaging, spatial color gamut mapping, gamut computation, color correction, high-dynamic-range imaging, spectral imaging, mobile displays, color appearance, and more.

Featured Keynote presentations will include:

• Terry Regier, associate professor in the University of Chicago's Department of Psychology, will speak on color naming and the effect of language on perception.
• Scott Tyo, associate professor of Optical Sciences and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, will discuss combining hyper-spectral and polarization contrast images into a unified color image.
• Fred Schubert, Wellfleet Senior Constellation Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will talk about LEDs in color imaging.
• David Haaland, senior scientist at the Cancer Biology Research Program at Sandia National Laboratories, will present "Hyperspectral Imaging: Converting Colors to Molecular Information."

CIC15 will take place at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town in Albuquerque, New Mexico. To learn more about the conference or to register, please visit www.imaging.org/conferences/CIC15. Or, go to www.sid.org and click on "conferences."

LatinDisplay 2007
November 12-15
Sao Paolo, Brazil

LatinDisplay 2007, to be held in Campinas, Sao Paolo, November 12-15, 2007, integrates the XIV InfoDisplay, XI Seminário BrDisplay, IX Latin SID Seminar, and the IX DisplayEscola, promoted by the Latin American SID Chapter, the Brazilian Network on Displays (BrDisplay) and the Ibero-American Network on Displays.

The objective of the event is the exchange of information between scientists, engineers, and technicians from companies and R&D institutions involved in displays and related areas. The conference also aims to attract new professionals and students to the area.

The congress will cover the most recent advances and trends in displays, their materials and processes. It will encourage open discussions on the needs and opportunities for the Ibero-American Region and will foster cooperative R&D programs.

A highlight of LatinDisplay 2007 will be invited conferences presented by scientific and technical experts and will have a tutorial character, encompassing the topics mentioned below. Other items on the agenda include: contributed papers; lectures and laboratory classes; business opportunity round table; meetings of the Ibero-American Network, BrDisplay Network and SID Latin-American Chapter; visits to laboratories and companies and an Exhibition.

The topics covered will be:

• Overview of displays, trends and perspectives (plasma displays, liquid crystal displays, field emission displays, e-Paper, holographic displays, light emitting displays - OLEDs and TFELs - etc.)
• Materials and processes
• Backlight units
• Measuring techniques
• Addressing circuits
• Quality and reliability
• Manufacturing processes
• Assembling and packaging
• Equipment and instruments
• Applications
• Other technologies related to displays: touch screens, tablets, optical cross connect, etc.
• Display ergonomics and human factors.

Participants are invited to contribute with scientific and technical posters and papers on all aspects of display technologies (LCDs, FEDs, holographic, PDPs, DMDs, TFELs, OLEDs etc.) and related technologies (touch-screens, tablets, optical switches etc.). So, they may cover materials, processes, design, testing, reliability, modeling, addressing electronics, ergonomics and applications. The posters may be presented in Portuguese, Spanish or preferably in English and their abstracts (50-100 words) must be submitted for refereeing, according to the template available at http://www.brdisplay.com/latindisplay2007.

Chapter News

This month's chapter news includes announcements from SID's Los Angeles, Mid-Atlantic, Texas, UK & Ireland, and Mid-Europe chapters.

Please submit any upcoming chapter events or announcements to jess@sid.org for inclusion in SIDirect and Information Display magazine.

LA Chapter to Host One-Day Symposium on LEDs
The Los Angeles chapter will host a one-day symposium on Jan. 11, 2008 with a focus on the application of LEDs to displays and lighting.

This all-day symposium will take place at the Costa Mesa Country Club in Costa Mesa, Calif., and will feature an exciting line up of speakers. The admission cost of $150 includes the symposium proceedings, a CD, breakfast, a gourmet banquet luncheon, free parking, and entrance to the exhibits. Volunteers who help with the symposium and those who organize group attendance will earn reduced rates. More information is available on the chapter's Web site at www.sidla.org.

Reservations will be accepted starting Oct. 1, 2007. This conference has sold out the past two years, so be sure to make your arrangements early! For more information, contact Erv Ulbrich at eulbrich@earthlink.net or (562) 696-4886. To register, contact Larry Iboshi, iboshi@pacbell.net.

SID Mid-Atlantic Chapter Elects 2007-2008 Officers

Congratulations to the SID Mid-Atlantic Chapter's newest officers:

• Butchi Reddy Vaddi - Chair
• Frank Yan - Vice Chair
• Michelle deCastro - Treasurer
• Ioaniss (John) Kymissis - Secretary

The chapter's outgoing Chair is Ihor Wacyk, and the current Chapter Director is Amal Ghosh.

Texas Chapter Hosts Discussion on $100 Laptop
Members of the Texas Chapter and guests met on the evening of Sept. 12 to discuss issues surrounding the $100 Laptop Computer. This event was also supported by the Central Texas IEEE Electron Devices Chapter. About 40 attendees were welcomed by Kevin Kettler, Chief Technical Officer of Dell Inc, with refreshments provided by Chi-Mei Optoelectronics.

Four speakers presented on various aspects of the $100 Laptop Computer, ranging from the commercial and cultural demand to the technical requirements of the display. Presentations included:

"Computers for Education in Brazil (and displays)" by Victor Mammana, Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Brazil

"AMD and OLPC: Making Digital Inclusion a Reality" by Vince Smoral, Director of Marketing, AMD

"Display Technology Challenges & Opportunities for the CLASSMATE PC" by Akihiro Takagi, Senior Display Technologist and Architect, Intel Corp.

Presentation details will soon be available on the chapter's Web site at http://www.sidchapters.org/texas/TX_Chapter_Index.html.

SID UK & Ireland Chapter and UK Display and Lighting to Host "Successful Displays by Design" Meeting
SID's UK & Ireland chapter will join UK Display and Lighting on Oct. 17 to host a meeting titled "Successful Displays by Design." The meeting is aimed at unveiling those aspects of design crucial to the creation of a visual display that completely fulfills end users' requirements and therefore achieves commercial success.

Most influential in the whole design process is the need to ensure that the requirements of the end user are fully understood and represented in the design process. This provides the basis upon which the success of the complete display system can be built. For this reason Human Factors feature strongly in the presentations. The meeting also incorporates other specific areas of display design that are also crucial to the overall success of the display system including modeling, backlighting and display technology.

The meeting will take place Wednesday, Oct. 17 at Bletchley Park Science and Innovation Centre, Milton Keynes. Full program and registration details will be available on the UK and Ireland chapter's Web site at http://www.sid.org/chapters/uki.html.

For more information, contact Dr. John R Mansell, +44 01342 323996, J_and_k_mansell@compuserve.com.

SID Mid-Europe Chapter to Hold Spring Meeting
March 13-14
Jena, Germany
The SID Mid Europe Chapter organizes yearly spring and fall meetings with technical and scientific presentations, attracting many European display professionals. The chapter's next gathering will be held March 13-14, 2008 at the Abbe Center in Jena, Germany.

The 2008 spring meeting will focus on different aspects of microdisplays and their applications. Basic technology will be covered as well as optical components and systems or applications in multimedia and niche markets. For the first time in the meeting's history there is the possibility of arranging a poster session. This offers more participants the possibility to present their work. Limited space for industrial exhibitors is also available.

The meeting will close on the second day with a visit to the laboratories of the Fraunhofer IOF.

For more information on this event, please visit http://www.iof.fraunhofer.de/sid/index.html.