Professor Ian Underwood, MicroEmissive Displays has been awarded the Alfred Woodhead Best Paper Award
Professor Ian Underwood, Chief Scientific Adviser for MicroEmissive Displays has been awarded the Alfred Woodhead Best Paper Award (as judged by the audience) for the paper entitled: “P-OLED microdisplays evolve towards see-through”. This paper was presented at the SID UK Technical Meeting on “Interactive and Mobile Displays” held on 16th April 2008 at Knebworth park, Stevenage.
The Best Paper Award was initiated in 1988, two years after the inauguration of the UK & Ireland Chapter. The chapter committee decided upon the best paper for each of the three meetings that year. The idea was to choose one as the best paper for 1988 with a prize of £150. In the event, they were unable to decide which one to choose and all three were given an award. It was decided that in future
there would be an award made for each meeting, rather than trying to devise a marking system which could be applied across meetings widely separated in time and subject matter. It was also decided that the delegates would award marks for each paper at a meeting to overcome any bias, which might arise from committee-only voting.
In 1996, the award was renamed the Alfred Woodhead Best Paper Award, in memory of Alf Woodhead. Alfred was a leading light in the formation of the chapter and was an active member of the committee in many roles until his death in 1995, shortly after the chapter’s tenth anniversary dinner at Emmanuel College Cambridge.
