SID 2017 honors and awards nominations
On behalf of the SID Honors and Awards Committee (H&AC), I am appealing for your active participation in the nomination of deserving individuals for the various SID honors and awards. The SID Board of Directors, based on recommendations made by the H&AC, grants all the awards. These awards include five major prizes awarded to individuals, not necessarily members of SID, based upon their outstanding achievements. The Karl Ferdinand Braun prize is awarded for “Outstanding Technical Achievement in, or Contribution to, Display Technology.” The prize is named in honor of the German physicist and Nobel Laureate Karl Ferdinand Braun who, in 1897, invented the cathode-ray tube (CRT). Scientific and technical achievements that cover either a wide range of display technologies or the fundamental principles of a specific technology are the prime reasons for awarding this prize to a nominee. The Jan Rajchman prize is awarded for “Outstanding Scientific and Technical Achievement or Research in the Field of Flat-Panel Displays.” This prize is specifically dedicated to those individuals who have made major contributions to one of the flat-panel-display technologies or, through their research activities, have advanced the state of understanding of one of those technologies. The Otto Schade prize is awarded for “Outstanding Scientific or Technical Achievement in the Advancement of Functional Performance and/or Image Quality of Information Displays.” This prize is named in honor of the pioneering RCA engineer Otto Schade, who invented the concept of the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) and who used it to characterize the entire display system, including the human observer. The advancement for this prize may be achieved in any display technology or display system or may be of a more general or theoretical nature. The scope of eligible advancement is broadly envisioned to encompass the areas of display systems, display electronics, applied vision and display human factors, image processing, and display metrology. The nature of eligible advancements may be in the form of theoretical or mathematical models, algorithms, software, hardware, or innovative methods of display-performance measurement and image-quality characterization. Each of these above-mentioned prizes carries a $2000 stipend sponsored by AU Optronics Corp., Sharp Corporation, and Samsung Display, respectively.
The Slottow–Owaki prize is awarded for “Outstanding Contributions to the Education and Training of Students and Professionals in the Field of Information Display.” This prize is named in honor of Professor H. Gene Slottow, University of Illinois, an inventor of the plasma display and Professor Kenichi Owaki from the Hiroshima Institute of Technology and an early leader of the pioneering Fujitsu Plasma Display program. The oustanding education and training contributions recognized by this prize is not limited to those of a professor in a formal university, but may also include training given by researchers, engineers, and managers in industry who have done an outstanding job developing information-display professionals. The Slottow–Owaki prize carries a $2000 stipend made possible by a generous gift from Fujitsu, Ltd., and Professor Tsutae Shinoda.
The fifth major SID award, the Lewis and Beatrice Winner Award, is awarded for “Exceptional and Sustained Service to the Society.” This award is granted exclusively to those who have worked hard over many years to further the goals of the Society.
The membership grade of SID Fellow is one of unusual professional distinction. Each year the SID Board of Directors elects a limited number (up to 0.1% of the membership in that year) of SID members in good standing to the grade of Fellow. To be eligible, candidates must have been members at the time of nomination for at least 5 years, with the last 3 years consecutive. A candidate for election to Fellow is a member with “Outstanding Qualifications and Experience as a Scientist or Engineer in the Field of Information Display who has made Widely Recognized and Significant Contributions to the Advancement of the Display Field” over a sustained period of time. SID members practicing in the field recognize the nominee’s work as providing significant technical contributions to knowledge in their area(s) of expertise. For this reason, five endorsements from SID members are required to accompany each Fellow nomination. Each Fellow nomination is evaluated by the H&AC, based on a weighted set of five criteria. These criteria and their assigned weights are creativity and patents, 30%; technical accomplishments and publications, 30%; technical leadership, 20%; service to SID, 15%; and other accomplishments, 5%. When submitting a Fellow award nomination, please keep these criteria with their weights in mind.
The Special Recognition Award is given annually to a number of individuals (membership in the SID is not required) of the scientific and business community for distinguished and valued contribution in the information-display field. These awards are given for contributions in one or more of the following categories: (a) Outstanding Technical Accomplishments, (b) Outstanding Contributions to the Literature, (c) Outstanding Service to the Society, (d) Outstanding Entrepreneurial Accomplishments, and (e) Outstanding Achievements in Education. When evaluating the Special Recognition Award nominations, the H&AC uses a five-level rating scale in each of the above-listed five categories, and these categories have equal weight. Nominators should indicate the category in which a Special Recognition Award nomination is to be considered by the H&AC. More than one category may be indicated. The nomination should, of course, stress accomplishments in the category or categories selected by the nominator.
While an individual nominated for an award or election to Fellow may not submit his/her own nomination, nominators may, if necessary, ask a nominee for information that will be useful in preparing the nomination. The nomination process is relatively simple, but requires that the nominator and perhaps some colleagues devote a little time to preparation of the supporting material that the H&AC needs in order to evaluate each nomination for its merit. It is not necessary to submit a complete publication record with a nomination. Just list the titles of the most significant half a dozen or less papers and patents authored by the nominee, and list the total number of papers and patents he/she has authored.
Determination of the winners for SID honors and awards is a highly selective process. On average, less than 30% of the nominations are selected to receive awards. Some of the major prizes are not awarded every year due to the lack of sufficiently qualified nominees. On the other hand, once a nomination is submitted, it will stay active for three consecutive years and will be considered three times by the H&AC. The nominator of such a nomination may improve the chances of the nomination by submitting additional material for the second or third year that it is considered, but such changes are not required.
Descriptions of each award and the lists of previous award winners can be found at www.sid.org/Awards/IndividualHonorsandAwards.aspx. Nomination forms can be downloaded by clicking on “click here” at the bottom of the text box on the above site where you will find Nomination Templates in both MS Word (preferred) and Text formats. Please use the links to find the Sample Nominations, which are useful for composing your nomination since these are the actual successful nominations for some previous SID awards. Nominations should preferably be submitted by e-mail. However, you can also submit nominations by ordinary mail if necessary.
Please note that with each Fellow nomination, only five written endorsements by five SID members are required. These brief endorsements – a minimum of 2–3 sentences to a maximum of one-half page in length – must state why clearly and succinctly, in the opinion of the endorser, the nominee deserves to be elected to a Fellow of the Society. Identical endorsements by two or more endorsers will be automatically rejected (no form letters, please). Please send these endorsements to me either by e-mail (preferred) or by hardcopy to the address stated in the accompanying text box. Only the Fellow nominations are required to have these endorsements. However, I encourage you to submit at least a few endorsements for all nominations since they will frequently add further support to your nomination.
All 2017 award nominations are to be submitted by October 15, 2016. E-mail your nominations directly to swu@ucf.edu with cc to office@sid.org. If that is not possible, then please send your hardcopy nomination by regular mail.
As I state each year: “In our professional lives, there are few greater rewards than recognition by our peers. For an individual in the field of displays, an award or prize from the SID, which represents his or her peers worldwide, is a most significant, happy, and satisfying experience. In addition, the overall reputation of the society depends on the individuals who are in its ‘Hall of Fame.’
When you nominate someone for an award or prize, you are bringing happiness to an individual and his or her family and friends, and you are also benefiting the society as a whole.”
Thank you for your nomination in advance.
— Shin-Tson Wu Chair, SID Honors & Awards Committee
SID honors and awards nominations
IDW and Asia Display Join Forces
The 23rd Annual International Display Workshops (IDW), held for the first time in conjunction with Asia Display, will take place December 7–9, 2016, in Fukuoka, Japan. The workshops, sponsored by the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers and the Society for Information Display, feature specialized content that plays an important role in information-display activities.
This year’s special topics include oxide-semiconductor TFTs, AR/VR and hyper reality, lighting, quantum-dot technologies, printed electronics, and automotive displays. Keynote addresses will include “Future Trends of Display Technology” by Chung-Chun Lee, BOE, China, and “Breaking the Barriers to True Augmented Reality” by Christian Sandor, NAIST, Japan. The event will include an exhibition and invited talks as well as scheduled technical sessions.
The city of Fukuoka is located in the northern part of Kyushu Island and is Western Japan’s most active city in terms of business, culture, and industry (Fig. 1). It is known as a particularly livable and affordable city.
The Fukuoka International Congress Center, where IDW and Asia Display will be held, is located only 1.5 km from the center of Fukuoka city. Ferries and jetfoils at the adjacent international terminal of Hakata Port run routes to Pusan, Korea.
Visit www.idw.or.jp to register and obtain more information.
Fig. 1: A bridge at Tenmangu Shrine in Dazaifu is just one of the many attractive sites to be enjoyed in Fukuoka. Dazaifu is among the most important of Japan’s shrines associated with the legendary Sugawara Michizane, a ninth-century scholar and politician.
Display Week Adds Two New Programs
Display Week 2016 in San Francisco introduced two new programs this year that were created to enhance the conference experience – the CMO Forum and the New Product Showcase. The CMO Forum, a 1-hour panel discussion moderated by SID head of marketing Sri Peruvemba, was designed to give marketing, sales, and supply-chain professionals at Display Week an opportunity to explore what Peruvemba describes as “the non-technical aspects of what we do.”
The five panelists were Paul Apen, Chief Strategy Officer, E Ink Corp.; Jennifer Davis, Chief Marketing Officer, Planar/Leyard International; Albert Green, Chief Executive Officer, Kent Displays; Greg McNeil, Vice-President of the Innovation Labs, Flex; and Stephen Squires, Chief Executive Officer, Quantum Materials. The panelists fielded questions such as “What are some of the things you have done that led to your success in business?” and “How will you make money in the display industry two to three years from now?” Most of the panelists agreed that the latter is a difficult question, but some offered interesting takes. “We need to consider not only traditional ROI but user experience. It might be interesting technology, but it also must answer customers’ needs,” said Davis. “One thing I see happening,” said McNeil, “is that products and ideas are coming from companies you would not have thought of in the past – manufacturers of windows and doors, for example. We are now opening up markets with companies who have not been ‘embedded in the electronics life.’ ”
The New Product Showcase was a special exhibit-floor program that allowed exhibitors to show one exciting new product or technology from their booths in a designated area on the show floor. The purpose behind the showcase was to make it easy for attendees, including members of the press, to see what was “hot” at the show, and also to encourage them to visit individual booths to learn more. This year’s showcase featured about 50 products. Many more exhibitors showed interest in participating next year.
Reactions to both the CMO Forum and the New Product Showcase were extremely positive, and show organizers plan to repeat both events at Display Week 2017 in Los Angeles. •