The IEEE LEOS BNL Student Chapter organized a visit on the 2 March 2006 to the main research facility of BARCO, in Kuurne, Belgium. An international flavored mix of participants from Belgium and The Netherlands joined the board. At 14:00 the visit started with a presentation about BARCO. It became clear that the company has Belgium roots because BARCO stands for Belgium American Radio Company. Originally their core business was radio components, but gradually it shifted towards visualization solutions such as the well-known projectors and LED walls. BARCO technology is widely used at main (pop-/art-/scientific-) events. Finally BARCO’s new and impressive digital projector was demonstrated with a movie trailer of King Kong in the same room. The exhibition rooms then showed us how the products of BARCO provide solutions for a multitude of scenarios. We also visited the production facilities of LED wall-components. Different resolution screens are made at BARCO for different situations. A drink in the main lobby of BARCO concluded the most enjoyable visit.

LEOS Benelux Annual Workshop 2006

This year’s theme of the Annual LEOS Benelux workshop is chosen to be “Introducing Optical Solutions in the User and Access Domain”. The workshop will be held on the 19 May at the premises of the Ghent University, Belgium. A junior and senior speaker have been invited for a presentation about their work. We have the honor to present Maria Garcia Larrodé of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Gerlas van den Hoven of Genexis B.V. to fulfill these positions.

Please find the call for papers and registration info on www.leosbenelux.org/workshop