Eastman Kodak to Present Keynote Address at USDC's High Information Content Display Systems Symposium

Agenda includes eight sessions, thirty speakers and will provide in-depth analysis of a dynamic, emerging market for electronic displays

San Jose, Calif., September 11, 2003 - The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC), a public/private partnership focused on building the electronic display industry infrastructure, today announced that the Eastman Kodak Company will deliver the keynote address at the 3rd Annual High Information Content Display Systems Symposium. The two-day program includes invited presentations, panel discussions and product exhibits. The symposium will be held on October 7-8, 2003 at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, VA.

The keynote address, "A Century of Photography to a Millennium of Imaging", will be presented by Dr. Ronda Factor, Chief Technical Officer & Vice President, Display Group for the Eastman Kodak Company. Dr. Factor has wide experience at Eastman Kodak in imaging technology and markets, including stints as development manager for color paper, R&D manager for consumer imaging, and worldwide director of new output systems & technologies.

Joining Dr. Factor in the opening session are Jim King from Adobe, who will address imaging software and the effects upon consumer-acceptance of imaging equipment; Ian Miller of Samsung Electronics, who will present on technology drivers for large area displays; and Ross Young of DisplaySearch, who will contrast the manufacturer and customer trade-offs between higher resolution and lower resolution displays.

"The symposium will demonstrate that the gap between niche applications for high information content displays and mass market demand is narrowing rapidly," stated Dr. J. Norman Bardsley, USDC's Director of Roadmaps and Standards at USDC. "A good example of near term demand is a monitor for 3M pixel digital cameras used in home and professional photography. All these cameras have more pixels than can be displayed on most computer monitors without spoiling the image quality by resorting to compression techniques," he added.

The USDC symposium will have eight sessions, encompassing more than thirty speakers. The sessions include:

Among other presenting companies are IBM, Sharp, NASA Ames, the National Imagery & Mapping Agency and Barco.

Federal agency co-sponsors of the USDC symposium include the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Army Research Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research and the National Imaging and Mapping Agency. Corporate co-sponsors are DisplaySearch, Matrox and Tech Source Inc.

Registration for the symposium is available by visiting USDC on the Internet at http://www.usdc.org or by calling 408-277-2400. The symposium registration fee is $550.

For more information, please contact:
US Display Consortium
Heidi Hoffman
84 W. Santa Clara Street, Ste. 790
San Jose, CA 95113
(408) 993-8111
heidi@usdc.org

About the U.S. Display Consortium
The U.S. Display Consortium is an industry-led public/private partnership providing a common platform for flat panel display and flexible microelectronics manufacturers and developers, FPD users, and the supplier base. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., the consortium’s primary mission is to fund supply-chain projects and share the results with USDC member companies. The USDC also provides a communication channel among industry, government and the financial communities for display issues; sponsors workshops to broaden the impact of technological developments; and educates consumers on the importance of displays in providing access to information technology. More information about the USDC can be found at www.usdc.org

About Eastman Kodak Company
Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in infoimaging, a $385 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras and flat-panel displays), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). With sales of $12.8 billion in 2002, the company comprises several businesses including health, commercial printing, commercial imaging, displays and components, and digital and film imaging systems.

SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
Tuesday, October 7th

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