The Society for Information Display (SID) is an international society, which has the aim of encouraging the development of all aspects of the field of information display. Complementary to the aims of the society, the Wiley-SID series is intended to explain the latest developments in information display technology at a professional level. The broad scope of the series addresses all facets of information displays from technical aspects through systems and prototypes to standards and ergonomics
Dr Crawford is head of the Display and Photonics Lab at Brown University.
He has contributed chapters to numerous books (including Wiley's Encyclopaedia of Imaging Science & Technology) and published over 150 journal articles. He was recently elected chair of the 2005 and 2007 Gordon Conferences on Liquid Crystals.