The International Display Workshops (IDW), held December 3-5, 2003, drew approximately 1500 registrants to Fukuoka, a major port city on Kyushu, the southernmost island of Japan. The attendance, a record for the conference, was 250 more than last year's total and substantially exceeded the organizers' expectations, said Organizing Committee Executive Chair Takeo Sugiura of Toppan Printing. The conference was held in the Fukuoka International Congress Center (Fig. 1). Referring to Fukuoka's reputation as an entertainment and cultural center, Sugiura welcomed attendees in his opening remarks by encouraging them to "enjoy Fukuoka, but not too much." General Chair Tatsuo Uchida (Tohoku University) observed that this was the first time since the conference's inauguration in 1994 that an IDW has been held anywhere other than the island of Honshu, the main island of Japan. Program Chair Kouji Suzuki (Toshiba) said that 449 technical papers had been accepted for presentation at the conference, which makes IDW the world's largest technical display conference devoted to information display, as measured by number of papers.
展开▼
