The Society for Information Display (SID) is an industry organization for displays, generally electronic displays such as televisions and computer monitors. SID was founded in September 1962. Its main activities are publishing technical journals and running "Display Week", its main conference, held in May or June each year. SID publications include the Journal of the Society for Information Display, published monthly, the Digest of Technical Papers from SID's annual conference, Information Display magazine, proceedings from other conferences such as the Vehicle Displays and Interfaces Symposium, Asia Display, and International Display Workshops. In addition, local chapters in the Americas, Europe, and throughout Asia have meetings frequently, including lectures by display technologists, and are sometimes offered as webcasts. The SID Board of Directors grants several SID awards based upon outstanding achievements and significant contributions.
History In early 1960s, the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) declined to create a new section devoted solely to electronic information displays. This caused founders from the IRE to start their own society, the Society for Information Display (SID).
SID was founded when Dr. Luxenberg held a meeting on September 29, 1962 at UCLA in Boelter Hall. There were 39 initial attendees. One of the founding members of SID was Edith M. Bairdain. The organization was made up of professionals interested in information display and the interactions between humans and machines. The annual SID symposium, seminar and exhibition is known as "Display Week."
Due to emergence of new display technologies and their successful commercialization, such as cathode-ray tube (CRT), plasma display, liquid-crystal display (LCD) and OLED displays, SID has expanded its scale in membership as well as the attendance in Display Week, its symposium and exhibition.
In 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, SID Display Week was held for the first time online. The event drew more than 5,500 attendees from 50+ countries and Takatoshi Tsujimura was named SID president.
Awards Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize The Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize is awarded "for an outstanding technical achievement in, or contribution to, display technology." The Prize is named after German physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun, the inventor of the cathode-ray tube.
List of recipients:
1987 – T. Peter Brody 1988 – Toshio Inoguchi 1989 – Norman F. Fyler, Harold B. Law, Edward Ramberg, and Alfred C. Schroeder 1990 – Akio Ohkoshi 1991 – Kentaro Kiyozumi and Tadashi Nakamura 1992 – Martin Schadt 1993 – William E. Glenn, William E. Good, and Thomas T. True 1995 – Eiichi Yamazaki 1996 – George Gray 1997 – Isamu Washizuka 1998 – Cyril Hilsum 1999 – Larry Hornbeck 2000 – Larry F. Weber 2003 – Tsutae Shinoda 2004 – Shuji Nakamura 2005 – William P. Bleha 2006 – Christopher N. King 2008 – Richard Williams 2009 – Frederic J. Kahn 2011 – Rudolf Eidenschink 2012 – Jun Souk 2013 – Isamu Akasaki 2014 – Katsumi Kondo 2015 – Junji Kido 2016 – Ho Kyoon Chung 2017 – Hiroyuki Ohshima 2018 – Hidefumi Yoshida 2019 – Amal Ghosh 2020 – Julie Brown 2021 – Sungchul Kim 2022 – Wei Chen and John Zhong 2023 – Hideo Hosono, Toshio Kamiya, and Kenji Nomura 2024 – Ching Tang and Steven Van Slyke 2025 – Xiaolin Yan
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