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GEORGE H. HEILMEIER
GEORGE H. HEILMEIER
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. This breakthrough is the basis for the subsequent developments, spanning five decades, that led to the billions of LCD devices deployed today in products ranging from digital clocks and calculators to flat panel TVs and computer Adapted from "Tribute to George Heilmeier, Inventor of Liquid Crystal Display, Former DARPA Director, and Industry Technology Leader," IEEE Communications Magazine, June 2014.
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Equally important, but less well known to the general public, are Heilmeier's contributions as a research leader during his tenures as director of the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) , senior executive at Texas Instruments, and CEO of Bellcore (Telcordia Technologies)
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He and I were the two runners-up in the annual Eta Kappa Nu selection of the most outstanding electrical engineer. George was then working at RCA and had invented the LCD display technology.
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This is usual and had been ordained from the start. Bellcore became Telcordia Technologies and the research division became increasingly funded through government proposals.
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• Increase the reliability of our vehicles by creating onboard diagnostics and prognostics. George had the ability to recognize the prospective, farreaching implications of a discovery such as the underlying ferroelectric effects in liquid crystals, to create solutions for important unmet market needs, and to follow through on the applied research and development needed to turn a new discovery into high-impact, marketable products [1, 2]
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Discussions of those questions, and case studies using those questions, should be part of any course on innovation and incorporated into the practices of all committees that select research projects for funding, all research program managers, and all principal investigators conducting research rojects. p Answers to all of these questions should be a mandatory section of every research proposal submitted for funding and every doctoral candidate's thesis research proposal [4, 5]
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[2] Heilmeier GH, Zanoni LA, Barton LA.
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