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Table of Contents2 Editorial Point...Shoot...and Poetry
- Ken Werner
4 The Display Continuum
A World Full of Electronic Peepholes
- Aris Silzars
6 European Views
- Alan Mosley
6 Calendar
12 Liquid Crystal Materials for Flat Panel Displays
Liquid Crystal materials are engineered as precisely as the displays that exploit their electro-optical characteristics
- Mitsuhiro Koden
16 Opinion: Reducing the Risk of Moving to Flat Panels
Most government systems continue to use CRTs, so how can console and display-system makers design for the future while recognizing the realities of the present?
- Michael Forde
20 Touch, Don’t Type
From their traditional bastions in industrial control and scientific instrumentation, touch-screen interfaces are spreading to many new applications.
- Robert Steinberg
24 Still Crazy After All These Years
Not only do CRTs constitute a huge business, but they still provide fertile ground for technical development.
- Joe Hallett
28 News from Toronto: The First “Glass Chassis” May Not Be Glass
The IDRC in Toronto was a solid research meeting with only a few surprises, but those surprises were aces.
48 Industry News
49 SID ’98 Hotel Reservation Information
52 Sustaining Members
52 Index to Advertisers