Mary Lou Jepsen
Mary Lou Jepsen (* 1965 ) is an American entrepreneur.
She studied Studio Art ( Bachelor of Arts) and Electrical Engineering (Bachelor of Sciences) at Brown University , where she received a PhD in Optical Sciences. She later earned a Masters of Arts in holography from the MIT Media Lab .
In 1995 she founded MicroDisplay Corp. as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , which manufactured LCoS displays. There she worked until 2003 as chief technology officer (CTO).
From 2003 to 2004 Jepsen was technology director of the former display department at Intel . It was there that she met her future husband - John Conor Ryan - with whom she worked here.
Jepsen was co-founder and, alongside Nicholas Negroponte, as technical director, most important employee of the development aid project One Laptop per Child, which has existed since 2005 . There she developed the technology of the liquid crystal screen, readable with ambient light, for the low-cost, energy-saving laptop OLPC XO-1 developed by the OLPC project . In May 2008, Jepsen came for the list of the hundred most influential people of Time Magazine.
At the beginning of 2008 she left the project and founded the company Pixel Qi , which develops and manufactures liquid crystal screens. With Pixel Qi she is commercializing the screen technology developments achieved in the OLPC project and continuing them.
Jepsen founded Openwater in 2016. The company develops new optics with which one can look into human bodies with light.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Mary Lou Jepsen's Blog at Pixel Qi
- TED Talk: How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jepsen, Mary Lou |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American businesswoman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |