DLP Technology Inventor Doctor Hornbeck Honored With Distinguished Achievement Awards

IEEE And Small Times Honor Dr. Larry Hornbeck For Pioneering DLPô Technology

7-Dec-04

Texas Instruments (TI) today announced that TI fellow Dr. Larry J. Hornbeck has been honored with two prestigious awards for his invention of its DLP display technology. IEEE has named Dr. Hornbeck recipient of the 2004 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for his pioneering work on and sustained development of DLP technology, and Small Times has honored Dr. Hornbeck with its 2004 Best of Small Tech Lifetime Achievement Award for his pioneering and sustained technical contributions to DLP technologyThe IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award celebrates significant contributions to emerging technologies recognized within recent years. Hornbeck will accept the honor on December 14th at the 2004 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco, Calif.The 2004 Small Times Magazine Best of Small Tech Awards recognize the best people, products and companies in nanotechnology, MEMS and microsystems.In 1987 Dr. Hornbeck invented the DMD, a MEMS-based array of fast, reflective, digital light switches that is at the heart of DLP technology. The first products enabled by DLP technology, business projectors by InFocus, came to market in early 1996. The inherent advantages of DLP technology, including high reliability, rich colors, razor-sharp images, and high contrast ratios, has since revolutionized the display industry. ""Larry Hornbeck's DLP success story should be required reading for the current generation of small tech inventors, entrepreneurs and investors,"" said Steve Crosby, President and Publisher of Small Times Media. ""His initial concept and early prototypes held great promise, but so do thousands of other inventions in labs around the world. It was Larry's, and TI's tenacious commitment during the past two decades to refining the technology and integrating it into consumer products that led to the hundreds of millions in revenue, the Emmys, and a new generation of projectors and large screen televisions.""Dr. Hornbeck holds thirty-two U.S. patents including the fundamental patents for the DMD chip and its manufacturing technology. He has received numerous national and international awards and honors including Germany's Eduard Rhein Foundation Technology Award (1995), England's Rank Prize (1997), an EmmyÆ Engineering Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (1998), the Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize from the Society for Information Display (1999), the Electronic Imaging Honoree of the Year Award from the SPIE (2001), The David Sarnoff Medal Award from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (2002). Texas Instruments received a second EmmyÆ from the National Television Academy in 2003 for ""Pioneering Development of Mass-Produced Digital Reflective Imaging Technology for Consumer Rear Projection Television.""The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society with approximately 360,000 members in 170 countries. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics. Small Times is the leading source of business news and information about the micro and nanotechnology industry.