Nominations Due Oct. 15 for David Sarnoff ‘Industrial Achievement Prize,’ Says SID

The Society for Information Display is creating an “industrial achievement prize” for 2018 named after the late RCA Chairman David Sarnoff “to honor individuals for long-term and significant leadership and/or exceptional contributions to the advancement of the information display industry,” SID said in a Wednesday announcement. The award gives SID the opportunity “to recognize outstanding recipients who would not qualify for one of SID's technical achievement awards but who nonetheless have had a profound, positive effect on the display industry,” it said. Nominations for the prize, which will command a $2,000 cash award donated by panel maker BOE, are due Oct. 15, SID said. The first Sarnoff prize will be given at the Display Week 2018 conference May 20-25 in Los Angeles, it said.