Mary Jepsen
Updated: 11/16/2019 by Computer Hope
Name: Mary Lou Jepsen
Born: 1965
Computer-related contributions
- Leader of the Display Division at Google X Lab.
- Founder of Pixel Qi (manufacturer of low-power, low-cost LCD screens for laptops).
- Co-founder and the first chief technology officer of OLPC (One Laptop per Child).
- Co-created the first holographic video system in the world at the MIT Media Lab (1989).
- Former chief technology officer of Intel's Display Division (2003, 2004).
Honors and awards
- World Technology Award in Hardware (2010).
- Named as one of 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine (2008).
- One of the top 50 female computer scientists of all time as determined by the Anita Borg Institute.
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
- Edwin Land Medal from the Optical Society of America.