“Lights of Philadelphia 2010: A Lighting Odyssey” has been rescheduled to Wednesday, September 22 and Thursday, September 23, 2010 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. Click here to learn more.

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has launched a new website dedicated to serving as an interactive online resource to educate, empower, connect and communicate with customers in the burgeoning LED and solid state lighting space. The LED Light site, available at www.ledlight.osram-os.com, provides LED-related resources and information tailored to customers in the outdoor, indoor, retail and architectural [...]

Last month, LightNOW reported here that Reed Elsevier would be closing 23 magazines, including Building Design+Construction, Chain Leader, Construction Bulletin, Construction Equipment, Consulting-Specifying Engineer, Plant Engineering, Professional Builder, Professional Remodeler and Restaurants & Institutions. While at LIGHTFAIR, I learned that some of these publications have been bought by their publishers. Consulting-Specifying Engineer, Control Engineering and [...]

Authors of papers regarding the art, science and practice of illumination are invited to submit their papers for possible presentation at the 2010 IES Annual Conference scheduled to be held in Toronto, Canada from November 7-9, 2010. Paper presentations provide a valuable vehicle for educating the membership about important technical advances in lighting. The Papers [...]

The public, as well as lighting industry experts, are invited to attend a lighting trade show and educational conference set for Tuesday and Wednesday, September 21 and 22, 2010 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. UPDATE: Note that the website says the event will be held Wednesday, Sept. 22 & Thursday, Sept. 23, not [...]

WattStopper has launched eCampus, a comprehensive and interactive online training site designed to make learning about lighting controls enjoyable and rewarding. Specifically designed for all influencers, including electrical contractors, distributors, ESCOs, and specifiers, the courses cover control applications in residential, commercial, and industrial settings. The free site features two offerings: eWards, where participants earn points [...]

The arrival of commercially available panels is a signal that OLEDs are getting in the game. The newly launched OLED Lighting Design Summit will be held in London on June 21-22 and will cover: · Current state of OLED technology, including efficiency, brightness, lifetime, performance and cost · Case-study examples of how OLEDs are being [...]

If you are attending LIGHTFAIR next week, you may want to stop by the DOE Solid-State Lighting booth (#2121). Representatives from DOE will be on hand to answer your questions about the latest CALiPER test results, GATEWAY demonstrations, the Lighting Facts label, design competitions like Lighting for Tomorrow and Next Generation Luminaires, the L Prize [...]

Students in UC Davis Professor Michael Siminovitch’s Winter 2010 Lighting Design studio course, taught at the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC), engaged in the hands-on design and development of prototypes for fully working LED luminaires. On the day of the final critique, the classroom was set aglow with 26 designs ready for evaluation. Industry representatives [...]