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SID: Powering the Display Industry for 60 Years

2022; Wiley; Volume: 38; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/msid.1307

2637-496X

Cultural Industries and Urban Development

THIS YEAR REPRESENTS THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE founding of the Society for Information Display (SID) and the first SID meeting called by Harold R. Luxenberg at the University of California, Los Angeles. Thirty-nine individuals were at that meeting; all were interested in some aspect of electronic information displays, a fairly nascent technology at that time. We can only guess whether those original attendees envisioned a future for the display industry similar to what has become an irreplaceable part of everyone's lives, or how much the society they formed would accomplish to enable all the great display products we enjoy today. Since that time, countless individuals have given their personal and professional energy to building SID across all cultural and geographical boundaries into a truly international organization that powers the display industry. In return, the display industry has produced more amazing and life-enhancing products than anyone could have imagined. During the 2010s, SID underwent a series of transformations of its governance structure, internal operations, and offerings to members. This period was bookended by the 2008/2009 economic crisis and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic of 2019, which required the Society to adapt to a rapidly evolving landscape full of challenges and opportunities. SID implemented many operational changes, including signing multiyear contracts for Display Week to be held in traditionally high-attendance West Coast venues. SID's leadership also leveraged this period of transition to adapt the Society to the emerging realities of our industry. A 2013 governance reform adjusted the board of directors of SID to be more representative of our global membership—replacing a board that was more than 80 percent seated in the United States with one where each region has representation proximately consistent with its SID membership. With the same goal in mind, SID created term-limited and geographically representative leadership roles in core areas and established a dedicated office in China to better support a growing membership in this region. These changes, and the inspired work of the newly appointed leaders, resulted in steep membership growth in previously underrepresented regions—both China and Japan exceeded 1,000 members during this period. The second decade of the millennium saw a transformation of SID toward a more global, inclusive, and topically expanded community with resultant increases in attendance and relevance—all while becoming more financially efficient. In recognition of these and many other accomplishments and to commemorate this auspicious anniversary, SID is planning a variety of important events at Display Week intended to put everyone in the spirit of celebration and inspire them to reach new heights of success in the next 60 years. Throughout the week, be on the lookout for a variety of activities, including an exhibit of display technology history and a scavenger hunt for new technologies on the exhibit floor. Registrants will receive a SID 60th anniversary pin and have the opportunity to win commemorative prizes and a chance to enter a grand-prize drawing. The highlight of the week will be an afternoon presentation session open to all attendees recognizing the growth of the display industry as well as the expansion and impact of SID. Speakers will include technology leaders in the fields of liquid crystals, OLEDs, ePaper, and much more. On hand will be leaders in the display manufacturing industry and even one of the visionary researchers in AI technology. Attendees also will hear testimonials from SID members who have experienced the benefits that SID can bring to careers and a vision for the future from the incoming SID president, Achin Bhowmik. Later in the evening, SID is holding an anniversary reception with music, drinks, food, gifts, and more special presentations. The evening reception is open to all attendees who purchase a special event ticket. The anniversary celebration is made possible by generous gifts from some of the most notable members in the industry. Each of the sponsors—3M, BOE, CSOT, E Ink, EMD Electronics, TCL, and Universal Display Corporation—have expressed genuine excitement about this amazing milestone. Share in their enthusiasm by visiting their booths and considering their products and services in your future endeavors. ADVANCING THE FUTURE OF DISPLAYS Johannes Canisius, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany THE DEVELOPMENT OF OLED—RETROSPECTION AND OUTLOOK Ching Tang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Steven Van Slyke, CTO Emeritus, Kateeva, Inc.; and G. Rajeswaran, Grantwood Technologies Inc. BOE VISION OF THE FUTURE Wenbao Gao, BOE THE AGE OF COMPUTER-AIDED REASONING AND ITS EFFECT ON OUR TOOLS AND HOW WE WILL WORK AND COMMUNICATE Steven Bathiche, Microsoft FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS AND THE FUTURE Edzer Huitema, E Ink SID: POWERING THE INDUSTRY Tara Akhavan, Faurecia IRYStec Inc.; John Kymissis, Columbia University; and Helge Seetzen, TandemLaunch GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION DISPLAY Achin Bhowmik, Starkey Hearing Technologies and Stanford University Philip Joujon-Roche, September 2012. Source: Rich Schmitt Photography. AT 6' 9” TALL, PHILIP JOUJON-ROCHE was an easy man to find in a crowd; he also stood out as a designer and project manager of significant air defense display consoles. In the early 1970s, he led a group that developed the HMD-22 display console for Hughes Air Defense Ground Environment (ADGE) systems. During the next 15 years, the Hughes Ground Systems Group (GSG) supplied air defense systems to more than 90 percent of countries in the free world. Joujon-Roche continued to work in the GSG Division to customize display systems based on the HMD-22 model for many international ADGE customers, which involved a lot of travel. Joujon-Roche died unexpectedly on February 17, 2022, in Brea, California, from severe sepsis following what was expected to be a routine operation. He was in good spirits before the procedure. Joujon-Roche was born in Long Beach, California on October 21, 1936, to Jean Edward Joujon-Roche and Ruth (Bardwell) Joujon-Roche. His brother, Edward, died in the Vietnam war; his sister, Anne Marie, recently passed. Joujon-Roche went to grade school in Fort Belvoir, where his father was stationed with the US Army Corps of Engineers. He graduated from Mission San Gabriel High School, where he played basketball and ran track. The family moved to Long Beach, and Joujon-Roche spent two years at Long Beach City College, where he played basketball and was active in college government. He then transferred to Stanford University with a basketball scholarship and was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford. After graduating, Joujon-Roche went to work at Philco Ford (which became Ford Aeroneutronics) in Newport Beach, California. In 1958, he married Barbara Gay Lardin, whom he had met at Long Beach City College. At Ford Aeroneutronics, Joujon-Roche worked on the Army's Tactical Operations (ARTOC) program, performing logic design for their digital system. This was a field-deployed command-and-control system, featuring a complex, film-based, large-screen display system. One of Joujon-Roche's mentors was Richard (Dick) Loewe, contributor to the classic Display Systems Engineering book by H.R. Luxenberg and Rudolph Kuehn. In 1965, Joujon-Roche joined the Data Processing Products Division at Hughes GSG in Fullerton to lead a team of system engineers who designed the digital system for the Japanese Tactical Air Weapons Control System and its Swiss counterpart. These were among the earliest Hughes air defense systems. In 1967, Joujon-Roche led the team designing the display system for the recently acquired Tactical Air Force 407L contract. This had all the earmarks of a disaster: a fixed-price contract with a new customer, design for an unfamiliar set of environmental specifications, and the requirement of designing more than 100 complex circuit cards with more than 20 integrated circuits each—all on an apparently impossible schedule. Joujon-Roche and his project team prevailed during three long years to produce a system that not only satisfied the customer, but actually made Hughes some money. Then Joujon-Roche began his long and highly successful association with the HMD-22 Display Console, a sophisticated yet cost-effective design, with between 400 and 500 models deployed in Hughes ADGE air defense systems worldwide. This led to overseas assignments in support of these programs. He also supported a major proposal by Hughes for the Advanced Automation System (AAS), which advanced the Federal Aviation Administration's revamp of the US air traffic control system, once again collaborating with Loewe. Joujon-Roche retired from Hughes in 1992 and joined the Southern California College of Optometry (now Marshall B. Ketchum University), where he served as an adjunct professor from 1993 to 1996. He supported Pete Baron's work on grants from two companies to conduct research on human susceptibility to visual color breakup in field-sequential color displays. From approximately 2000 to 2015, he worked for his friend Larry Tannas, a key member of the small team that developed Tannas Electronic Displays into a successful business enterprise. He initially was the go-to man for reconstituting the digital interfaces for all of the company's down-sized (“Tannasized”) LCD panels and later contributed to the company's marketing efforts as well. After his second “retirement,” Joujon-Roche performed consulting work for Thin Film Industries in Anaheim to maintain their legacy power supplies. Beginning in the early 2000s, he also consulted on Macintosh computers, tackling any and all Mac-related issues. Joujon-Roche was a key member of the Society for Information Display Los Angeles Chapter executive board. He served as co-program chair (1992–1994, 2006–2008), chapter chair (1994–1996, 2009–2010), and program chair for all but two years from 2006–2021. He was one of a tight group of executive committee members—four of them Hughes alumni—who ran one of the most active SID chapters in the United States. Joujon-Roche enjoyed a variety of hobbies, including surfing, horseshoes, golf, learning to play piano, and a lifelong love of jazz. His major avocation was his 1931 Ford Model A convertible. After buying the car in 1961, he refined and upgraded it for the next 60 years and was an active member of the Orange County Ford Model A club. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and volunteered for the St. Vincent de Paul family-assistance ministry at his parish church. Driving in Style Phil in his 1931 Ford Model A convertible, September 2016. Joujon-Roche is survived by his wife Barbara, his two sons Craig and Philip (wife Shannon), and three beloved grandchildren (Cecily, Rachel, and Merritt). —Peter Baron, Harlan Rogers, and Ken Werner SHIN-TSON WU, FROM THE University of Central Florida (UCF), has been selected as the 2022 Edwin H. Land Medal winner. Wu is honored for his contributions to novel displays and diffractive optics, which have led to commercial products and widespread applications, especially for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and imaging devices. He is a technical leader in the field of display and imaging technologies. He has performed groundbreaking work in developing new liquid crystal materials, devices, and applications. His contributions have had a wide-reaching impact on the display industry. Wu's inventions, scientific discoveries, and technology development of advanced LCDs and imaging devices have assisted with improved economic development and quality of life. His research at UCF focuses on AR and VR, including light engines (miniLEDs, microLEDs, and OLEDs), optical systems (lightguide, diffractive optics, and projection optics), and display materials (liquid crystals, quantum dots, and perovskites). He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/Optica Journal of Display Technology, is a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2012), recipient of the SPIE Maria Goeppert-Mayer award (2022), OSA Esther Hoffman Beller medal (2014), SID Slottow-Owaki Prize (2011), OSA Joseph Fraunhofer award (2010), SID Jan Rajchman Prize (2008), SPIE G. G. Stokes award (2008), a Fellow of the Society for Information Display, Optica, IEEE, and SPIE, and was inducted into the inaugural Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. “I would like to thank my present and former group members for their outstanding scientific discoveries and technological accomplishments, my research sponsors for their trust, and my family members for their loving and spiritual support,” said Wu. Established in 1992, the Edwin H. Land Medal recognizes pioneering work empowered by scientific research to create inventions, technologies, and products. The medal is jointly presented by Optica and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T). The recipients share Edwin Land's scientific intensity and curiosity in optics and imaging and, in part, reflect his image as inventor, scientist, entrepreneur, and teacher. Wu received a BS in physics from the National Taiwan University and a PhD in physics from the University of Southern California. He is currently the Pegasus professor at CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics at UCF.