Finding a Theme

摘要

The 2003 Society for Information Display International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition (SID '03), held May 18―23 in Baltimore, Maryland, was large, lively, and complex. This entire issue of Information Display ― nine articles written by six correspondents, plus two expert opinion pieces by Yoichi Taira of IBM Research Japan and Gary Feather of Sharp Laboratories America ― is devoted to it. We have organized our coverage by both technology and event, as we do each year. This year, the articles cover LCDs, emissive displays, microdisplays, and display electronics and semiconductors, and we also have articles on the new SID business conference, the annual awards dinner, and the evening panel. The details are fascinating, and it is easy to get lost in them. But if one stands back far enough, does a theme ― or a few themes ―emerge from the all the activities of hundreds of exhibitors, hundreds of technical-paper presenters, and thousands of attendees? Let's see, keeping in mind that a large event like SID can be like the fabled elephant that is examined by the six blind wise men. Depending on the part each grabbed first, the different wise men got very different ideas of the nature of the elephant. Nonetheless...