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Mary Lou Jepsen

Mary Lou Jepsen
Jepsen in 2022
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrown University
OccupationTechnology Pioneer
Known forCo-founder, One Laptop Per Child
WebsiteMaryLouJepsen.com

Mary Lou Jepsen is a technical executive and inventor in the fields of display, imaging, and computer hardware. She was the co-founder and first chief technology officer of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), and later founded Pixel Qi in Taipei, Taiwan, focused on the design and manufacture of displays. She founded and led two moonshots at Google X, and was an executive at Facebook / Oculus VR,[1] leading an effort to advance virtual reality.

Her contributions have had adoption in head-mounted displays, HDTV, laptop computers, and projector products. She contributed to low-cost computing and innovative consumer and medical imaging technologies. In 2008 Time magazine named her in their list of the hundred most influential scientists and thinkers in the world,[2] and in 2013 CNN named her as one of their "10 thinkers" for her work in display innovation.[3]

In 2016 Jepsen founded OpenWater, a startup working on fMRI-type imaging of the body using holographic, infrared techniques.[4]

  1. ^ "Oculus Has Hired Mary Lou Jepsen Away From Google X". March 2, 2015.
  2. ^ Kahle, Brewster (May 12, 2008). "The 2008 TIME 100: Scientists & Thinkers - Mary Lou Jepsen". TIME.com. Archived from the original on May 3, 2008. Retrieved October 5, 2014. Jepsen, 43
  3. ^ "The CNN 10: Thinkers". CNN. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
  4. ^ "Mary Lou Jepsen on Life Post-Facebook and New Startup,"Open Water"". May 6, 2016. Retrieved April 13, 2017.

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