Mary Lou Jepsen (born 1965) was the founding chief technology officer of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), an organization whose mission is to deliver low-cost, mesh-networked laptops en masse to children in developing countries. For her work in creating the laptop Time Magazine named her to its 2008 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Jepsen is married to John Conor Ryan, formerly a partner at Monitor Group, who has recently joined ...
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Mary Lou Jepsen (born 1965) was the founding chief technology officer of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), an organization whose mission is to deliver low-cost, mesh-networked laptops en masse to children in developing countries. For her work in creating the laptop Time Magazine named her to its 2008 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Jepsen is married to John Conor Ryan, formerly a partner at Monitor Group, who has recently joined Pixel Qi.
Jepsen studied Studio Art and Electrical Engineering at Brown, and went on to receive a Ph.D. in Optical Sciences there. She later received a Master of Science in Holography from the MIT Media Lab. Her contributions have had worldwide adoption in head-mounted display, HDTV and projector products.
Her PhD work combined rigorous theoretical coupled-wave analysis with lab work, in which she created large-scale, embossed surface-relief diffraction gratings with liquid crystal-filled grooves with high diffraction efficiency in un...
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