SID Treasurer: Dr. Anthony C. Lowe

Tony Lowe

Tony Lowe was born in Sussex, England. He obtained the degrees of BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and PhD in Interfacial Chemistry from the University of Southampton. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Victoria in Canada, he joined the IBM UK Manufacturing Research Laboratory in 1970. In 1976 he moved to the IBM UK Development Laboratory, and in 1978 was assigned to the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose, California, returning to the UK in 1980. In 1992, he transferred to IBM Monitor Development which is located in Greenock, Scotland. In January 1994 he was assigned to the IBM TJ Watson Research Centre in Yorktown, NY, as a project manager working in flat panel display research.

During his career, Dr Lowe has held a number of technical and managerial positions. His activities have included the development of manufacturing control techniques, magnetic storage files and flexible circuit technology, but predominantly he has been concerned with research and development of displays, optical projection systems and touch input devices for displays. He holds ten patents.

Dr Lowe has been a member of SID since 1979. In 1989 he was a member of a UK Government OSTEMS mission to Japan on flat panel display technology. He was Chairman of the United Kingdom and Ireland Chapter 1989-91 and its Director from 1991-1992. He was chairman of the European Programme Committee of the 1992 SID International Symposium, and was a member of the Organising and Programme Committees of EuroDisplay93. He has been a member of the Steering Committee of the EuroDisplay Research Conference since 1990, was chair of the European Programme Committee for the 1994 IDRC, and an Overseas Advisor for AsiaDisplay95. He was chair of the SID New Chapter Formation Committee 1992-1994 and during this time was responsible for negotiating the formation of three new chapters in Europe (France in 1992, Mid-Europe in 1993 and Belarus in 1994) and one (Beijing) in Asia in 1994. Following the regional reorganisation of the Society, Dr Lowe was elected as the first SID Vice-President, European Region, a position which he held from 1992 until 1994, when he was elected to his present office of Treasurer.