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CAMPBELL, Calif., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Celebrating 50 years as an shape dedicated to display innovation, the Society for Information Display (SID), announced its final program develop up for Display Week 2012. Display Week is SID's annual International Symposium, Seminar and Demonstration, and will run from June 3-8, 2012 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Keynote speakers take in industry visionaries from LG Display, Samsung Electronics and MIT, while the technical program features more than 400 papers covering the latest dignified-of-the-art developments in the display arena.

SID was established in 1962 to bring together the electronics industry's most artistically minds to focus on development and commercialization of display technology, with the inaugural Display Week intriguing place a year later. "The landscape of the display industry was far different then compared to what it looks like today," said Brian Berkeley, SID's president-determine. "Back in the days of heavy glass cathode ray tubes, it would have been hard for most of us to imagine displays evolving as they have over the gone 50 years. The first plasma display debuted in 1964 and the first LCD in 1968; today, LCD industry motion well exceeds 100 million units per year. In 1974, we saw the first AMLCD prototype, and 10 years later, the first commercial LCD TV hit the deal in. OLED was discovered in 1987, with the first commercial OLED panel coming to market in 1999. In 2009, alert OLED displays achieved high-volume mass production. These and myriad other flash innovations ALL debuted at Display Week."

Source: MarketWatch (press release)