Mary Lou Jepsen

Current

• Founder and CEO at Pixel Qi

Past

• Chief Technology Officer at One Laptop per Child
• Professor (previous visiting scientist) at MIT Media Lab
• Chief Technology Officer at Intel Display Division

• Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at MicroDisplay Corp.
• Fellow at Academy of Media Art - Cologne, Germany
• Professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• San Diego Fellow at University of California, San Diego

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Education

• Brown University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Brown University

• University of California, San Diego

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Connections

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Industry

Consumer Electronics

Websites

• My Company

Mary Lou Jepsen’s Summary

Starting in Jan 2008 a new company Pixel Qi (www.pixelqi.com) to extend the work I led in the design of the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child (OLPC) to both provide OLPC product at cost, and provide commercial entities products for-profit.

Previous:
* 2005-2008 Responsible for the design of the $100 laptop at One Laptop Per Child - and starting the non-profit corporation.
* 2004 Director of Technology Development at Intel Corp, Display Technologies Organization. (Focused on bringing Intel's Liquid Crystal on Silicon devices to market)
* 1995-2003 Co-founder and CTO of MicroDisplay Corp
* Long prior history in display holography at various places all over the world
* PhD in optical sciences, Brown Univ,
* MS in Holography from MIT Media Lab,
* BS in Electrical Engineering, BA in Art (Brown Univ)

Mary Lou Jepsen’s Specialties:

$100 laptops, displays, projection display, liquid crystals, diffractive optics, optics, human visual system

Mary Lou Jepsen’s Experience

• Founder and CEO

  Pixel Qi

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  What computing can be, the XO laptop was just the first step. Rapid idea-to-design-to-production of next generation computing devices and display components. Specialities include:
  
  * Extreme low-cost
  * Extreme low-power
  * Mass producible new display technologies
  * Outdoor use, sunlight readability and robustness
  
  Why can't you buy a laptop in a bubble pack at a drug store? Calculators used to be expensive but dropped in price to support this - it's time for personal computers to get there.

• Chief Technology Officer

  One Laptop per Child

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 2005 — January 2008 (3 years 1 month)

• Professor (previous visiting scientist)

  MIT Media Lab

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 5 months)

• Chief Technology Officer

  Intel Display Division

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year)

• Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

  MicroDisplay Corp.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  June 1995 — December 2003 (8 years 7 months)

  MicroDisplay is a maker of components for 40"-60" rear projection televisions. Microdisplay designs and manufactures the image making component. This component is called a microdisplay or a panel. We specialize in a type of technology called LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon). MicroDisplay makes a single-panel (rather than a separate panel for red, green and blue channels) that offers substantial cost-down advantages for high-definition big screen tvs.

• Fellow

  Academy of Media Art - Cologne, Germany

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  March 1991 — December 1991 (10 months)

• Professor

  Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 1990 — March 1991 (1 year 3 months)

• San Diego Fellow

  University of California, San Diego

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  June 1989 — December 1990 (1 year 7 months)

Mary Lou Jepsen’s Education

• Brown University

  PhD , Optical Sciences , 1992 — 1996

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Sc.M , Media Technology , 1987 — 1989

• Brown University

  Sc.B , Electrical Engineering; Studio Art , 1983 — 1987

• University of California, San Diego

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