Mary Lou Jepsen

Mary Lou Jepsen (* 1965) is an American entrepreneur.

She studied Studio Art (completed a Bachelor of Arts ) and Electrical Engineering ( completed a Bachelor of Sciences) at Brown University and got there a PhD in Optical Sciences awarded. Later, she made a Master of Arts in Holography at the MIT Media Lab.

In 1995, she founded the company Micro Display Corp.. as a spin-off of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, LCoS screens produced. There she worked until 2003 as a technical director (Chief Technology Officer, CTO ).

From 2003 to 2004 Jepsen was chief of the former display technology department at Intel. There she also met her future husband - John Conor Ryan -, with whom she worked here.

Jepsen was co-founder and besides Nicholas Negroponte as technical manager major collaborator of existing development aid since 2005, the project One Laptop per Child. She developed the technique of there to-read liquid crystal display screen with ambient light for the OLPC project developed by the energy-saving low-cost laptop OLPC XO -1. In May 2008, Jepsen came for it on the list of the hundred most influential people in Time Magazine.

Beginning of 2008, she left the project and founded the company Pixel Qi, the liquid crystal display screens develops and manufactures. With Pixel Qi they commercialized that reached in the OLPC screen technology developments and leads her away.