Nearly all of the popular technologies for utilitizing LEDs in place of incandescents and fluorescents were antcipated  by the early scientists and engineers in the field by 1980.  In 1978, a core group of MIT EE students would embrace LEDs and giude them to their early successes - from the Guggenheim Museum to the Massachusetts General Hospital, miniature luminaires in the US Air Force cockpits to submarine displays, and blinky toy candles to whirling frisbees.
	From the 1993 New York, Lillehammer, Norway, Kyoto, Japan International Art Exhibit by Jenny Holzer. Based on LED 'Persistence of Vision' technology further developed and refined at MIT by Edwin Berlin, Paul Miller, Dennis J Solomon and associates.
1994 Installation at Harvard University's Loker Common of Integral Flat Panel Lighting  and LED Video Display based on the early-generation Blue LED (RGB) based, additive color mixed, having pulse-width modulation with multiple diffusion color-mixing layers. Technologies developed by Paul Miller, Dennis J Solomon and associates

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