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Oct.
3, 2002
NC State's
Bitzer Wins Emmy Award for Plasma Screen Technology
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Dr.
Donald L. Bitzer, Distinguished University Research
Professor of Computer
Science at North Carolina State University,
has been awarded an Emmy by the National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for
his efforts in advancing television technology.
The award was presented in a ceremony Oct. 2 in
New York. Bitzer is the first faculty member at
NC State to win an Emmy.
Bitzer
co-invented the flat plasma display panel in 1964.
Originally invented as an educational aid to help
students working in front of computers for long
periods of time, plasma screens do not flicker
and are a significant advance in television technology.
The invention won the Industrial Research 100
Award in 1966.
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Dr.
Donald Bitzer
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In
an ironic twist, in 1973 the National Academy of Engineering
presented Bitzer with the Vladimir K. Zworykin Award,
which honors the inventor of the iconoscope. The iconoscope
was the precursor of the Image Orthicon tube, a vacuum
tube used in early television cameras and called "Immy"
- a name feminized to the Emmy that Bitzer has been
awarded.
A
member of the National
Academy of Engineering since 1974, Bitzer was designated
a National Associate by the National Academies, a group
composed of the National
Academy of Science, the National
Academy of Engineering, the Institute
of Medicine and the National
Research Council, in 2002. He is an Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer
Society Fellow and a member of the American
Society for Engineering Education.
Bitzer
received his bachelor's in 1955, his master's in 1956
and his doctorate in 1960, all in electrical engineering
from the University of Illinois.
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