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Mary Lou Jepsen is a tech pioneer with over 250 patents and 50 game-changing products to her name.

From virtual and augmented reality systems to laptops and smartphones, from holography to health wearables, Jepsen has touched a wide range of technologies. With her current project Openwater she's working on a suite of cutting-edge diagnostics and therapeutic wearables aimed at curing cancer, mental diseases, and stroke.

Jepsen was executive director of engineering at both Google and Facebook, a CTO at Intel, and the founder of four successful startups, including One Laptop per Child, which transformed education in developing countries and became a multi-billion dollar non-profit.

Jepsen is a former professor at MIT and currently serves as a director at two public companies: Lear Corporation and Luminar Technologies. She's advised government officials in multiple countries, including the United States, and has been recognized by TIME magazine's "Time 100" as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, CNN's top 10 thinkers, Forbes' 50 over 50, and numerous professional societies in the fields of optics, display, and electronics.

Jepsen is a sought-after keynote speaker and has given two highly viewed TED talks. She's frequently featured in top global press publications.

A link to her academic resume via her NIH "bio-sketch" is here

Work Experience

CEO, Founder, and Chairman of the Board - Openwater - San Francisco, CA 2016- present

Trying to cure cancer, mental & neurodegenerative diseases and stroke via a wearable that can also enable brain computer interfaces and ultimately communication via thought.

Board Director - Luminar Technologies - 2021 - present

The clear leader in LiDAR system listed as LAZR (NASDAQ)

Executive Director of Engineering - Facebook and Oculus - Menlo Park, CA 2015-2016

Mary Lou was both an architect and an executive at Facebook / Oculus leading various efforts including a continued transformation of the virtual reality experience. She had the fundamental insight that a move to liquid crystal based systems from OLED was critical to consumer grade product and pushed it's introduction into Oculus Quest 2 - the best selling VR product ever made smashing all sales records in VR and delivering billions of dollars in revenue. She invented and created new breakthrough systems including these low-persistence, high frame rate, rich pixel density screens and optical systems. She also pioneered a form of augmented reality with true foveal vision >180 degree FOV, large eye-box, embedded eye-tracking and alpha-channel mixed reality ability blackening selectively part of the scene all in a sunglasses form factor for low cost high volume production. This was with a novel way to seamlessly tile pixel groups on the back of the retina as if the retina at software selective resolution per pixel-group. In addition she led Facebook's first foray into brain computer interfaces (prior to any other efforts).

Board Director - Lear Corporation - Southfield Michigan 2016 - present

Helping steer this $20B Fortune 500 (#174) company listed on the NYSE well through the transformation in transportation underway now.

Director of Engineering & Head of Display Division, Google Mountain View, CA - 2012-2015

Mary Lou led display and hardware efforts throughout Google, and reported to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. While there she played a critical role in Google Glass, several Android programs and also founded and directed two “Moonshot” programs in Google [x]. She was responsible for invention and architecture, R&D (SW and HW engineering) and also business strategy, product management, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, go-to-market and strategic partnerships. One program was reported by the WSJ to be large scale tile-able displays - aka "Lego-TV" the other hasn't been reported to date.

CEO and Founder, Pixel Qi Corp Taipei, Taiwan (and San Bruno, CA) - 2008 - 2014

Mary Lou founded Pixel Qi, the world’s only fabless display developer, as a spin-off of One Laptop per Child to extend and commercialize the breakthrough screen and power management architecture she invented and developed for the $100 laptop. She built a business to develop new screen architectures to production with less than a year of development time (display innovation typically takes a decade or more to reach fruition). Pixel Qi technology shipped several million units with >10x lower power consumption and sunlight readability while preserving color, video and image quality. As CEO, she oversaw business strategy, product management, R&D (SW and HW engineering), operations, raising funds, supply chain, manufacturing, go-to-market and strategic partnerships.

CTO and Co-founder, One Laptop per Child Cambridge, Mass - 2005 - 2008

Jepsen launched this non-profit organization with Nicholas Negroponte, and was its only employee for its first year. Jepsen invented the fundamental laptop architecture and a new screen and convinced some of world’s largest manufacturers to produce it. She oversaw sequential development from prototypes to scale-manufacture of the innovative underlying components, software, content, IP, firmware, and the entire system; managing over 1000 people. Millions of units shipped to nearly every country transforming opportunities for children in the developing world. Multi-billion dollar revenue went through OLPC and this catalyzed $30B of revenue for its for-profit partners. Its lasting legacy is in changing what a minister of education can do for a countries children. The CEO of Google is widely quote as saying the Chromebook is the grandchild of One Laptop per Child.

Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Media Lab Cambridge, Mass - 2005-2007

Jepsen joined the faculty of the MIT Media Lab where she initially co-founded One Laptop per Child and began the Nomadic Displays group. She drove work in a variety of areas including consumer electronics, software systems, display architecture, and user interfaces particularly for pre-literate children.

Chief Technology Officer, Intel Corporation, Display Division Santa Clara, CA - 2004-2005

Responsible for overall architecture and design of Intel's next generation HDTV products - including optics, liquid crystals, testing, characterization, performance improvement, design and integration of electronics, ASICs, and manufacturing.

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, MicroDisplay Corporation Richmond, CA - 1995-2003

Created microdisplay technology for virtual reality, augmented reality, wearables, and flat screen HDTVs. Shipped breakthrough product in all these areas working primarily with Asian manufacturers and brand names throughout the globe. Served as overall system architect, led design and integration of electronics, ASICs, optics, liquid crystals, optical engine, TV makers, head-mounted displays, cellphone makers, all for optimized manufacturability in product.

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Philips Consumer Electronics & Research NY - 1998-1999

Part of early Lumileds effort contributing to breakthroughs in efficiency for LED devices now included in billions of devices. Developed Philips single-panel and triple-panel (500+ frame per second) liquid crystal on silicon devices and front- and rear- projection systems.

Education and Scientific Research and Media Arts

Ph.D. Optical Physics, Brown University 1996

Liquid crystal displays that work without polarized light, with liquid crystal filled holographic diffractive structures.

Side Project: Started Moon-TV - to project video on the Moon by redirecting sunlight incident on Earth to the Moon using large solar farms filled with big moving mirrors

Sc.M. Media Technology, MIT Media Lab 1989

World's first fully computer generated holographic video system

Sc.B. Electrical Engineering (with Honors), A.B. Studio Art (req.) Brown University 1987

My focus was on Holography which combined my strong interests in math, engineering and art.

Senior Fellow, Kunsthochschule for Median Köln Cologne, Germany - 1991-1992

Big Art: made a big computer generated hologram that filled a city block and could be only seen 10 minutes a day for 55 days a year if it wasn't overcast.

Computer Science Professor, Royal Melbourne Inst of Technology Australia - 1990-1991

Huge computer generated holograms - that filled beach coves, and small ones that were used on the Australian paper (plastic) currency. Also lots of "straight" 3D computer graphics on flat screens with really good optical modeling (at the time)

Optical Computing - San Diego Fellow, University of California, San Diego, CA - 1989-1990

Diffractive/Refractive solutions for free space optical interconnects for optical computing, neural nets, massively parallel computing, etc.

Selected Awards

2022 Forbes 50 over 50 Awardee

2019-21 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award

2018 Forbes Top 50 women in technology

2008 TIME 100: named One of the 100 most influential people in world by Time Magazine

2018 Elected a Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID)

2015 NBA (National Basketball Association)/Cisco Inspiring the Future Award

2014 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate - Brown University

2013 CNN top 10 thinker

2012 Named to top 50 female computer scientists of all-time - the Anita Borg Institute

2012 Elected Fellow of the Optica/Optical Society of America

2011 Awarded the Edwin Land Medal - Optical Society of America/Optical

2011 Awarded the Anita Borg “Woman of Vision” Award for Innovation

2011 Awarded the Brown Alumni Excellence in Engineering Medal - Brown University

2010 Won the Display of the Year Award - Society for Information Display (SID)

2010 Won the World Technology Award : for individual contributions to hardware

2010 Laptop Magazine: named 19th most influential person in mobile computing

2010 IEEE ACE Award Grand Prize for best emerging technology (awarded to Pixel Qi)

2010 Popular Science “Best of What’s New Award”- 2010 (sunlit screens w/ color & video)

2009 Best of Computex Award (Taiwan)

2008 WITI Hall of Fame Inductee (Women in Technology International)

2008 Horace Mann Medal - Brown University

2008 Design of the Year - London Design Museum

2007 INDEX Design Award - €100,000 for OLPC XO laptop

2007 Mobile Innovation Award - Laptop Magazine

2006 Popular Science “Best of What’s New Award” (for $100 Laptop)

2006 One of “100 Top Ideas of the Year” - New York Times

2006 IF Product Design Award

1990 Popular Science “Best of What’s New Award” (for Holographic Video System)

1987 Brown University "George H Main Award" for distinguished senior in engineering

Boards and Public Service/Other

Board of Directors Experience:

Lear Corporation LEA:NYSE (a ~$20B Fortune 500 company in the automotive space)
Luminar Technologies LAZR:NASDAQ (the world leader in LiDAR)
Pixel Qi Corporation (chairman of board) (2008-2013)
One Laptop per Child Non Profit Association (observer) (2005-8)
Brown University Engineering Board (reports to president) 2012-present
MEDCO (Express Scripts) Innovation Board 2011-2013
MicroDisplay Corporation (observer) (1995-2003)

Task Force / Advisory Experience:

National Academies of Engineering, Science and Medicine joint committee on women 2015
American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan - co-chair of technology committee 2010-2012
Brown University School of Engineering Advisory Council
IEEE Spectrum Editorial Advisory Board
Univ of Cal, Berkeley EECS advisory Board
Univ of Cal, Berkeley, School of Computing, Data Science & Society Board
Google Science Fair: Final Level - Judging for top winners of this award - 2012-2015
Brazilian Presidential Task Force on Computers for Education – 2005-6
Chinese Academy of Science working group on computers and education 2005
ITU Telecom World working group on digital divide in education 2006
US State and Defense Departments Science Board contributor 2007
Internet Archive “Books In Browsers” technology advisory board 2010-2
EPEAT Technology Advisory Board on green devices 2008
Grace Hopper – Women in Computer Science Exec Committee 2008
Anita Borg Institute awards committee chair 2008-present
Magazine Publishers of America Task Force contributor on future devices & screens 2008-9
Japanese Government, Industry and Academic Committee on e-publishing outlook 2007
Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs - Digital Divide Division launch 2007
UN World Summit on Information Society – Education and computing panel 2005
Taiwan National Labs (ITRI) “creativity in engineering” task force - 2006
Uruguay Minister of Education Digital Education Task Force contributor – 2006-8
Peru’s One Laptop Per Child Executive Committee contributor 2006-8

Products (a sampler of notable products Mary Lou led)

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop - Mary Lou architected the lowest cost laptop ever made, lowest power laptop ever made, first with retinal display resolution, first with sunlight readability and color with video, first with mesh networking to connect the laptops within 3 kilometers, first with long life LiFePh battery technology, and with a completely novel architecture where the motherboard is off most of the time while the screen self refreshes. It was a breakthrough in rugged, droppable, water resistance with a new OS which enabled children to use the laptop without being able to read or write. etc. This spearheaded fastest growing consumer electronics category until that time ever recorded in the netbook which made $30B for for the laptop ecosystem, OLPC itself had more than a billion dollars in revenue.

Oculus Quest 2 Virtual Reality System - Mary Lou was the key architect of liquid crystal display & optics in this system that enabled mass high quality VR at low pricepoints. Her architectures leapfrogged expensive and bulky OLED+optics in performance and cost in the earlier Oculus systems to enable by far the best selling VR system of all time. This unit made billions of dollars in revenue and even prompted Facebook to change its name to Meta! She also invented and architected a suite of AR/MR (augmented reality and mixed reality) in a sunglasses format with 180+ degree of viewing R/L and up/down with variable fovea resolution, large eye box and built in eye tracking in a sleek sunglasses format that can go to market in the near term.

Google Glass - Mary Lou was a key pioneer of this architecture with MicroDisplay and Micro-Optical in the late 1990s with an identical optical and display architecture to Google Glass 15 years early! At Google she oversaw technology directions for the entire program for Sergey Brin.

MicroDisplay Liquid Crystal on Silicon ASICS and SDks - Pioneered this set of 22 LCOS units, with 4 controllers, 2 contrast couplers, 5 SDKs that enabled a generation of early virtual reality, augmented reality systems, Info systems (like Google Glass but in the 90s), smart phones, wrist watch videos, flat screen large area screens for televisions and monitors and pico-projectors. First to achieve production on LCOS world-wide in the late 1990s enabling the first true wearables with high quality displays in them running on not much of a battery.

Pixel Qi array of low power sunlight readable screens with color and video. Mary Lou invented and brought to mass production an array of breakthrough screens that went into laptops, tablets and smartphones from 2009-2014. These all had color, video, sunlight readability, well documented high fidelity text reliability, and delivered extreme low power and long battery life. They shipped into a few dozen different devices with different box manufacturers prior to Google acquiring the assets.

Patents:

Dr. Jepsen is inventor of over 250 published or issued patents as listed below (partial list below, many more unpublished)

1 United States 8,830,426 Color shift reduction in transflective liquid crystal displays.
2 United States 20150022754 Configurations for tileable display apparatus with multiple pixel arrays.
3 United States 20080117346 Dual Mode Display.
4 United States 20110285684 Low Power Consumption Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
5 United States 6172792 Method and Apparatus for Forming Optical Gratings.
6 United States 20150153023 Multi-aperture illumination layer for tileable display.
7 United States 20150097837 Variable resolution seamless tileable display.
8 United States 9,310,634 Aesthetic layer for display panels.
9 United States 20150177538 Aesthetic Layer for Display Panels.
10 United States 2019072897 APPLICATIONS OF DIFFUSE MEDIUM IMAGING
11 United States 20100225857 Backlight Recirculation in Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
12 United States 20150022424 Bezel Pixel Layer in Multi-Panel Display.
13 United States 2018335753 Co-located Imaging and Display Pixel
14 United States 10,775,741 Co-locating Imaging and Display Pixel
15 United States 8,830,426 Color Shift Reduction In Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays
16 United States 20120120341 Color Shift Reduction in Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
17 United States 10,297,180 Compensation of Chromatic Dispersion in a Tunable Beam Steering Device for Improved Display
18 United States 20170061838 Compensation of Chromatic Dispersion in a Tunable Beam Steering Device for Improved Display.
19 United States 170219864 Configurations for tileable display apparatus with multiple pixel arrays
20 United States 2017219864 CONFIGURATIONS FOR TILEABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH MULTIPLE PIXEL ARRAYS
21 United States 9,841,624 CONFIGURATIONS FOR TILEABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH MULTIPLE PIXEL ARRAYS
22 United States 20150022754 Configurations for Tileable Display Apparatus with Multiple Pixel Arrays.
23 United States 10,506,181 Device for Optical Imaging
24 United States 20200059611 Device for Optical Imaging
25 United States 10,338,451 Devices and Methods for Removing Zeroth Order Leakage in Beam Steering Devices
26 United States 20170059960 Devices and Methods for Removing Zeroth Order Leakage in Beam Steering Devices.
27 United States 8,384,861 Diffractive liquid crystal display.
28 United States 100026930 Diffractive Liquid Crystal Display.
29 United States 20100026930 Diffractive liquid crystal display.
30 United States 9,557,954 Display panel using direct emission pixel arrays.
31 United States 20170039907 Display with a Tunable Mask for Augmented Reality.
32 United States 20170038591 Display with a Tunable Pinhole Array for Augmented Reality.
33 United States 20170038836 Display with an Embedded Eye Tracker.
34 United States 7,746,431 Dual mode display
35 United States 20080117346 Dual mode display.
36 United States 9,412,336 Dynamic backlight control for spatially independent display regions.
37 United States 20150097853 Dynamic backlight control for spatially independent display regions.
38 United States 2016314765 DYNAMIC UPDATE OF DISPLAY PIXELS
39 United States 9,401,128 Dynamic update of display pixels.
40 United States 9,607,582 Dynamic update of display pixels.
41 United States 20160314765 Dynamic Update of Display Pixels.
42 United States 20170038590 Enhanced Pixel Resolution through Non-Uniform Ocular Projection.
43 United States 10,670,929 Enhanced Spatial Resolution Using a Segmented Electrode Array
44 United States 2019179205 Enhanced Spatial Resolution Using a Segmented Electrode Array
45 United States 20170176818 Enhanced Spatial Resolution using a Segmented Electrode Array.
46 United States 20170039906 Enhanced Visual Perception Through Distance-Based Ocular Projection.
47 United States 11,320,783 Flexible Tip Optical Imaging
48 United States 20200085309 Flexible Tip Optical Imaging
49 United States 9,176,370 High contrast rear projection screen
50 United States 9,013,790 High contrast rear projection screen for use with a diverging illumination source.
51 United States 9,013,790 High Contrast Rear Projection Screen for Use with A Diverging Illumination Source.
52 United States 10,772,574 Imaging with Infrared Imaging Signals
53 United States 10,962,929 Interference Optics for Optical Imaging Device
54 United States 2020089165 Interference Optics for Optical Imaging Device
55 United States 2017277000 INVERTED LCD STRUCTURE FOR VR
56 United States 9,989,801 INVERTED LCD STRUCTURE FOR VR
57 United States D609703 Laptop computer
58 United States 10,705,262 Liquid Crystal Half-Wave Plate Lens
59 United States 2019212477 Liquid Crystal Half-Wave Plate Lens
60 United States 20170115491 Liquid Crystal Half-Wave Plate Lens.
61 United States 8,698,716 Low power consumption transflective liquid crystal displays.
62 United States 20110285684 Low Power Consumption Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
63 United States 9,529,563 Masking mechanical separations between tiled display panels.
64 United States 20160093244 Masking mechanical separations between tiled display panels.
65 United States 10,354,577 Masking non-functioning pixels in a display
66 United States 6,172,792 Method and apparatus for forming optical gratings
67 United States 6,172,792 Method and apparatus for forming optical gratings.
68 United States 11,547,370 Method of infrared imaging
69 United States 11,547,370 Method of infrared imaging
70 United States 2020383646 Method of Infrared Imaging
71 United States 9,349,160 Method, apparatus and system for enhancing a display of video data
72 United States 9,223,536 Method, apparatus and system to determine display misalignment
73 United States 10,552,676 Methods and Devices for Eye Tracking Based on Depth Sensing
74 United States 20170109562 Methods and Devices for Eye Tracking Based on Depth Sensing.
75 United States 20130187962 Mixed Transmissive – Reflective - Transflective Liquid Crystal Display.
76 United States 20150153023 Multi-Aperture Illumination Layer for Tileable Display.
77 United States 20210050704 Multi-channel laser
78 United States 11,581,696 Multi-channel Laser
79 United States 9,594,277 Multi-domain pixel array
80 United States 9,594,277 Multi-domain pixel array.
81 United States 20120127140 Multi-mode liquid crystal display with auxiliary non-display components.
82 United States 20170038589 Near-Ocular Display Based on Hologram Projection.
83 United States 20170039960 Ocular Projection Based on Pupil Position.
84 United States 9,690,535 Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus
85 United States 2017039020 OPTICAL CONFIGURATIONS IN A TILEABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS
86 United States 9,690,535 OPTICAL CONFIGURATIONS IN A TILEABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS
87 United States 9,500,906 Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus.
88 United States 9,336,729, Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus.
89 United States 20150023051 Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus.
90 United States 9,730,649 Optical imaging in a diffuse medium
91 United States 11,252,343 OPTICAL IMAGING THROUGH DISPLAY
92 United States 2020396396 OPTICAL IMAGING THROUGH DISPLAY
93 United States 10,880,497 Optical Imaging with Ultrasonic Signal
94 United States 2020059611 OPTICAL IMAGING WITH ULTRASONIC SIGNAL
95 United States 2021153743 Optical Imaging with Unshifted Reference Beam
96 United States 20170039905 Optical System for Retinal Projection from Near-Ocular Display.
97 United States 10,778,911 Optical Transformation Device for Imaging
98 United States 2018052563 Optical Transformation Device for Imaging
99 United States 20120218487 Patterned In-Cell Retarder for Transflective Vertically Aligned Liquid Crystal Display and Method of Fabrication
100 United States 8,692,963 Patterned in-cell retarder for transflective vertically aligned liquid crystal display and method of fabrication.
101 United States 20120218487 Patterned In-Cell Retarder for Transflective Vertically Aligned Liquid Crystal Display and Method of Fabrication.
102 United States 9,424,809 Patterned projection with multi-panel display
103 United States 9,424,809 Patterned projection with multi-panel display.
104 United States 9,411,552 Pixel layer in multi-panel display.
105 United States 9,250,508 Rear projection screen with pin-hole concentrator array.
106 United States 6,307,607 Reflective liquid crystal display with integrated compensation for skew angle rotation and birefringence effects
107 United States 20160091786 Screen configuration for display system.
108 United States 20150138755 Seamless tileable display with peripheral magnification.
109 United States 9,123,266 Seamless tileable display with peripheral magnification.
110 United States 20150138755 Seamless Tileable Display with Peripheral Magnification.
111 United States 20070285428 Self-refreshing display controller for a display device in a computational unit.
112 United States 20100225640 Switching Operating Modes of Liquid Crystal Displays.
113 United States 10,778,912 System and Device for Optical Transformation
114 United States 2021153742 System for Optical Imaging with Unshifted Reference Beam
115 United States 20210153742 System for optical imaging with unshifted reference beam
116 United States 2003053017 Thin cell gap microdisplays with optimum optical properties
117 United States 6,801,285 Thin Cell Gap Microdisplays with Optimum Optical Properties.
118 United States 20030053017 Thin cell gap microdisplays with optimum optical properties.
119 United States 10,345,599 Tile Array for Near-Ocular Display
120 United States 2018252924 Tile Array for Near-Ocular Display
121 United States 20170039904 Tile Array for Near-Ocular Display.
122 United States 20150022727 Tileable Display Apparatus.
123 United States 9,626,145 Tileable display with pixel-tape.
124 United States 10,459,305 Time-Domain Adjustment of Phase Retardation in a Liquid Crystal Grating for a Color Display
125 United States 20170115519 Time-Domain Adjustment of Phase Retardation in a Liquid Crystal Grating for a Color Display.
126 United States 2011025960 Transflective Display Sub-Pixel Structures
127 United States 8,314,907 Transflective display sub-pixel structures with transmissive area having different sizes and reflective area having equal sizes.
128 United States 20110025960 Transflective Display Sub-Pixel Structures with Transmissive Area Having Different Sizes and Reflective Area Having Equal Sizes.
129 United States 20110025962 Transflective Display Sub-Pixel Structures.
130 United States 8,264,646 Transflective display with white tuning.
131 United States 20100020276 Transflective display with white tuning.
132 United States 8,264,645 Transflective display.
133 United States 20100014032 Transflective display.
134 United States 20120039034 Transflective LCD with Arcuate Pixel Portions.
135 United States 8,462,144 Triple mode liquid crystal display.
136 United States 20100020054 Triple Mode Liquid Crystal Display.
137 United States 2016247487 VARIABLE RESOLUTION SEAMLESS TILEABLE DISPLAY
138 United States 9,368,070 Variable resolution seamless tileable display.
139 United States 9,558,720 Variable resolution seamless tileable display.
140 United States 20150097837 Variable Resolution Seamless Tileable Display.
141 United States 20170176753 Wide Angle Beam Steering in Sunglasses for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
142 Taiwan 201610553 High contrast rear projection screen for use with a diverging illumination source.
143 Taiwan 201525571, 2014/10/21 Aesthetic Layer for Display Panels.
144 Taiwan 201525571, 2015/7/1 Aesthetic layer for display panels.
145 Taiwan I437324, 2009/9/15 Backlight Recirculation in Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
146 Taiwan 201505013, 2014/7/1 Bezel Pixel Layer in Multi-Panel Display.
147 Taiwan 201505013, 2015/2/1 Bezel Pixel Layer in Multi-Panel Display.
148 Taiwan 201513092, 2014/7/1 Configurations for Tileable Display Apparatus with Multiple Pixel Arrays.
149 Taiwan 201513092, 2015/4/1 Configurations for Tileable Display Apparatus with Multiple Pixel Arrays.
150 Taiwan TW201013260 (A) Diffractive liquid crystal display
151 Taiwan I401501, 2009/7/28 Diffractive Liquid Crystal Display.
152 Taiwan TW200823554 (A); Dual mode display
153 Taiwan I354159, 2007/3/2 Dual Mode Display.
154 Taiwan TWI560694 (B) Dynamic backlight control for spatially independent display regions
155 Taiwan 201528246, 2014/10/6 Dynamic Backlight Control for Spatially Independent Display Regions.
156 Taiwan 201528246, 2015/7/16 Dynamic Backlight Control for Spatially Independent Display Regions.
157 Taiwan TW201142421 (A) Low power consumption transflective liquid crystal displays
158 Taiwan 201142421, 2010/6/28 Low Power Consumption Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
159 Taiwan 201626348, 2016/07/16 Masking mechanical separations between tiled display panels.
160 Taiwan 201513092, 2015/6/16 Multi-Aperture Illumination Layer for Tileable Display.
161 Taiwan 201523089, 2014/10/21 Multi-Aperture Illumination Layer for Tileable Display.
162 Taiwan TW201243442 (A) Multi-mode liquid crystal display with auxiliary non-display components
163 Taiwan 201243442, 2011/11/17 Multi-Mode Liquid Crystal Display with Auxiliary Non-Display Components .
164 Taiwan 201506869, 2014/7/1 Optical Configurations in A Tileable Display Apparatus.
165 Taiwan 201506869, 2015/2/16 Optical Configurations in A Tileable Display Apparatus.
166 Taiwan I520116, 2016/02/01 Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus.
167 Taiwan 201626097, 2016/07/16 Screen configuration for display system.
168 Taiwan 201523553, 2014/10/21 Seamless Tileable Display with Peripheral Magnification.
169 Taiwan 201523553, 2015/6/16n. Seamless Tileable Display with Peripheral Magnification.
170 Taiwan I529678, 2016/04/11 Seamless tileable display with peripheral magnification.
171 Taiwan TW200745857 (A) Self-refreshing display controller for display devices in a computational unit
172 Taiwan I437433, 2007/3/23 Self-Refreshing Display Controller for Display Devices in A Computational Unit.
173 Taiwan 201037599, 2009/12/4 Switching Operating Modes of Liquid Crystal Displays.
174 Taiwan 201506868, 2014/7/1 Tileable Display Apparatus.
175 Taiwan 201506868, 2015/2/16 Tileable Display Apparatus.
176 Taiwan TW201017273 (A) Transflective display
177 Taiwan TW201104309 (A) Transflective display sub-pixel structures
178 Taiwan TWI414852 (B) Transflective display sub-pixel structures
179 Taiwan I414852, 2010/2/25 Transflective Display Sub-Pixel Structures.
180 Taiwan TW201022780 (A) Transflective display with white tuning
181 Taiwan I401496, 2009/7/28 Transflective Display with White Tuning.
182 Taiwan TW201229628 (A) Transflective LCD with arcuate pixel portions
183 Taiwan TW201017635 (A) Triple mode liquid crystal display
184 Taiwan I404038, 2009/7/28 Triple Mode Liquid Crystal Display.
185 Taiwan 201523569, 2014/10/6 Variable Resolution Seamless Tileable Display.
186 Taiwan 201523569, 2015/6/16 Variable Resolution Seamless Tileable Display.
187 Korea 1008908410000 컴퓨터 유닛의 디스플레이 장치용 셀프 리프레싱디스플레이 컨트롤러
188 Korea 1020017010510 통합된 보상기를 구비하는 반사성 액정 디스플레이).
189 Korea KR20160103064 Aesthetic Layer for Display Panels.
190 Korea KR100933111 DUAL MODE DISPLAY
191 Korea KR20080091312 DUAL MODE DISPLAY
192 Korea KR20170016951 HIGH CONTRAST REAR PROJECTION SCREEN FOR USE WITH A DIVERGING ILLUMINATION SOURCE
193 Korea KR101828730 MULTI-APERTURE ILLUMINATION LAYER FOR TILEABLE DISPLAY
194 Korea KR20160094410 MULTI-APERTURE ILLUMINATION LAYER FOR TILEABLE DISPLAY
195 Korea 1009331110000 듀얼 모드 디스플레이
196 Korea 1012901950000 백색 튜닝을 갖는 반사투과형 디스플레이
197 Korea 10129167 00000 삼중 모드 액정 디스플레이
198 Korea 1020117023178 액정 디스플레이 동작 모드의 스위칭
199 Korea 101313111 0000 트랜스플랙티브 액정 디스플레이스들과 그 제조방법 및 컴퓨터
200 Korea 1020070096912 트랜스플랙티브 액정 디스플레이스들과 그 제조방법 및 컴퓨터
201 Korea 1012902050000 회절 액정 디스플레이
202 Japan JP4670102 DUAL MODE DISPLAY
203 Japan 2008129575, 2008/6/5 Dual Mode Display.
204 Japan 2007293296 Power Consumption Reducing Method of Display Subsystem, System for The Same and Second Display Controller.
205 Japan 2011-253194, 2011/12/15 Power Consumption Reducing Method of Display Subsystem, System for The Same, And Second Display Controller.
206 Great Britain 2480976, 2011/11/16 Switching Operating Modes of Liquid Crystal Displays.
207 European Patent EP3022730 Configurations for tileable display apparatus with multiple pixel arrays
208 European Patent 4014289 Multi-channel laser
209 European Patent EP3022728 Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus
210 European Patent EP 3,512,413 Optical Imaging of Diffuse Medium
211 European Patent 3373167 System and Device for Optical Transformation
212 European Patent EP3022729 Tileable display apparatus
213 China    200980159097.8(CN102414601A), 2012/4/11 液晶显示器的运行模式切换
214 China    CN105830139 Aesthetic Layer for Display Panels.
215 China    CN102422207 Backlight recirculation in transflective liquid crystal displays
216 China    102422207, 2012/4/28 Backlight Recirculation in Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
217 China    CN105453159 Bezel pixel layer in multi-panel display
218 China    CN114098641 Imaging apparatus and method of imaging tissue
219 China    CN106537235 Masking mechanical separations between tiled display panels
220 China    CN114207961 Multi-channel laser
221 China    CN105393295 Optical Configurations in A Tileable Display Apparatus.
222 China    ZL 201780055528.0 Optical Imaging of Diffuse Medium
223 China    CN107003599 Rear projection screen with pin-hole concentrator array
224 China    CN106471423 Screen configuration for display system
225 China    CN105684067 Seamless tileable display with peripheral magnification
226 China    CN102414601 SWITCHING OPERATING MODES OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS
227 China    CN105393294 Tileable display apparatus
228 China    200980129831.6, 三模液晶显示器
229 China    200710110172 双模式显示器
230 China    200980129839 带有白色调谐的透反式显示器
231 CN102422207 透反式液晶显示器中的背光循环
232 China    200980159175 透反式液晶显示器中的背光循环
233 World WO2015009382 Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus.
234 World WO2016053506 Screen configuration for display system.
235 World 2010/014598 Triple Mode Liquid Crystal Display.
236 World 2015/099859 Aesthetic Layer for Display Panels.
237 World WO2015099859 Aesthetic layer for display panels.
238 World 2010/104529 Backlight Recirculation in Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
239 World 2015/009371 Bezel Pixel Layer in Multi-Panel Display.
240 World 2015/009374 Configurations for Tileable Display Apparatus with Multiple Pixel Arrays.
241 World 2010/014624 Diffractive Liquid Crystal Display.
242 World WO/2016/105811 Display panel using direct emission pixel arrays
243 World 2008/063171 Dual Mode Display.
244 World 2015/053926 Dynamic Backlight Control for Spatially Independent Display Regions.
245 World WO2011146055 LOW POWER CONSUMPTION TRANSFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS
246 World 2011/146055 Low Power Consumption Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
247 World WO2016053505 Masking Mechanical Separations between Tiled Display Panels.
248 World 2015/084480 Multi-Aperture Illumination Layer for Tileable Display.
249 World 2012/068342 Multi-Mode Liquid Crystal Display with Auxiliary Non-Display Components.
250 World WO/2015/009382 Optical Configurations in A Tileable Display Apparatus.
251 World 2018052555 Optical Imaging of Diffuse Medium
252 World WO2019190764 OPTICAL TRANSFORMATION DEVICE FOR IMAGING
253 World WO/2016/081101 Rear projection screen with pin-hole concentrator array.
254 World 2015/076939 Seamless Tileable Display with Peripheral Magnification.
255 World WO2007112021 (A2) SELF-REFRESHING DISPLAY CONTROLLER FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE IN A COMPUTATIONAL UNIT
256 World WO2007112021 (A3) SELF-REFRESHING DISPLAY CONTROLLER FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE IN A COMPUTATIONAL UNIT
257 World 2007/112021 Self-Refreshing Display Controller for A Display Device in A Computational Unit.
258 World 2015/009381 Tileable Display Apparatus.
259 World 2011/016875 Transflective Display Sub-Pixel Structures.
260 World 2010/014601 Transflective Display with White Tuning.
261 World 2010/009286 Transflective Display.
262 World 2012/021767 Transflective LCD with Arcuate Pixel Portions.
263 World 2015/053927 Variable Resolution Seamless Tileable Display.
264 World 2010/101592 Switching Operating Modes of Liquid Crystal Displays.

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12010 Liquid crystal filled diffraction gratings Brown University

RECENT KEYNOTES and TALKS

Details and links to talks at https://www.openwater.cc

2023 ----------------------------------------------------------------

Jan 15 - DLD Speaker keynote with Howard Morgan "The News on Neuro" - Munich Germany

Jan 28 - SPIE Photonics West - San Francisco, CA

Jan 8- JP Morgan Healthcare meeting - San Francisco, CA

2022 ----------------------------------------------------------------

Oct 5 - WISH World Innovation Summit on Health) - Mary Lou Jepsen Key note - Doha, Qatar

Sept 30 - Deep Tech Health + Neurotech Boston

Sep 8 - LG Nova - Mary Lou Jepsen Key note - Richmond CA

Aug 25 - DWEB Camp - Mary Lou Jepsen Talk - Mendocino, CA

July 28 - Neuroergonomics & NYC Neuromodulation Conferences - NYC

May 27 - Invited speaker - CNN Life Itself - San Diego, CA

2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------

Oct 20 - Milken Global Institute Conference 2021 - Beverly HIlls

Apr 11 - Openwater's new modality for blood flow detection now in clinical trials - OSA Optics

Feb 18 - NIH BRAIN - Panel on optical and acoustic tech - virtual

Feb 4 - This week's guest on Backstage - Kittyhawk Ventures

Jan 28 - SPIE Photonics West Preview - virtual for SPIE

Jan 26 - a360 - virtual

2020 --------------------------------------------------------------

Nov 19 - Brain Computer-Interfaces Symposium - virtual

Oct 21 - Annual Meeting of the International Neuroethics Society - virtual

Oct 10 - fNIRS 2020 - virtual

Oct 5 - Advanced Prototype Engineering Tech Symposium- virtual

Sep 30 - Horasis Extraordinary Meeting - Switzerland

Aug 20 - Abundance Platinum Longevity Meeting - Half Moon Bay, CA

Jul 16 - Kinnernet - Israel / Global

Feb 19 - International Stroke Conference - Los Angeles, Ca

Feb 2 - SPIE Photonics West- San Francisco, CA

Jan 12 - JP Morgan Healthcare Conference - San Francisco, CA

2019-------------------------------------------------------------

Dec 2 - RSNA (105th meeting of the Radiologist Society of N. America)- Chicago, Ill

Oct 10 - Brain Mind Summit - Stanford, Ca

Sep 16 - Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture - Univ Cal, Berkeley

Sep 3 - Controversies in Breast Cancer - San Francisco, Ca

Aug 26 - Commonwealth Club - Future of Healthcare - San Francisco, CA

Jun 29 - Summer Davos - World Economic Forum - Dalian China

Jun 12 - ISTU - International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound - Barcelona Spain

Jun 12 - Founders Forum - London, England

Jun 9 - London Tech Week & CogX (many talks) - London

Apr 9 - Greg Gutfield Podcast on Fox News

Mar 27 - Abu Dhabi Ideas Fest Keynote - Abu Dhabi UAE

Mar 26 - Wired Health Keynote - London, UK

Feb 19 - Norman Foster Foundation - Digital X - Madrid, Spain

Feb 4 - SPIE Photonics West - Openwater, and VR/AR Panel - San Francisco

Jan 27 - Peter Diamondis's Abundance A360 - Keynote - Beverly Hills

2018---------------------------------------------------------------

Dec 3 - Business Insider - Ignition, New York City

Nov 11 - Techonomy talk - Half Moon Bay, CA

Nov 4 - Exponential Medicine Keynote - San Diego California

Oct 29 - Long Now Foundation Seminar - San Francisco CA

Oct 21 - Focused Ultrasound Foundation Symposium Keynote - Reston Virginia

Oct 13 - Wired 25th anniversary celebration - Podcast, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA

Sept 24 - Wearable Tech + Digital Health + Neuro - MIT, Cambridge MA

Sept 8 - Brain Mind Summit Keynote, Stanford Univ, California

Aug 21 - Singularity University Global Summit, San Francisco, CA

June 23-24 - Scifoo - Google - Mountain View CA

June 15 - Xconomy Napa Summit - Napa CA

May 20 - SID Display Week - Los Angeles

May 2 - DLD NYC - New York City

Apr 13 - TED (annual TED conference) - Vancouver, BC CANADA

Feb 26 - Applysci @ Stanford - Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA

Jan 20-23 - DLD Munich

Jan 10 - JPMorgan - Panel - The Future of Healthcare w/ convergence of digital - San Francisco

2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------

Aug 15 - Singularity University Global Summit

May 23 - VMware keynote for RADIO (3000 R&D engineers)

May 4 - Computer History Museum - Mary Lou Jepsen in conversation with John Hollar

May 3 - Milken Institute Global Conference - With Ed Boyden, Bryan Johnson and Neal Kassel

Apr 20 - Fireside Chat at /dev/color

Apr 19 - Xconomy Forum: Human Impact of Innovation

Apr 2 - OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences

Mar 14 - SxSW featured talk “Telepathy meets Medical Imaging” with Sunny Bates- Austin TX

Mar 11 - Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode interview Mary Lou on “Too Embarrassed to Ask”

Feb 7-8 - Stanford Univ. Neuro-digital Health Conference - Stanford, CA

Jan 13 - Detroit Auto Show - Detroit, MI

2016 - Q3+Q4-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Dec 8 - Harvard/MGH - Cambridge, MA

Nov 18 - Washington University - OSA Invited Fellow Lecture- Saint Louis, MO

Nov 1-2 - Fortune Magazine Brainstorm - Health - San Diego

Oct 13-14 - NYU Medical Imaging Invitational - Imaging Systems of Tomorrow - NYC

Oct 6 - TedxSanFrancisco talk online - San Francisco, CA

Oct 5 - Pepsi Academy of Sciences Awards - New York

Sept 27 - Samsung CEO Summit - San Jose, CA

Sept 26-27 - The Mind Brain Summit - Stanford University - Stanford, CA

Sept 23-25 - The Nantucket Project - Nantucket, RI

PRESS CLIPS

More recent selection at www.openwater.cc or just google

BBC

http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2016/05/160506_tecnologia_mary_lou_jepsen_ingeniera_google_facebook_yv

https://sciencefriday.com/person/mary-lou- jepsen/

La Nacion

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1896984-quien- es-mary- lou-jepsen- la-superingeniera- que-deja- facebook-para- curar-con- tecnologia

NPR (National Public Radio)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12057367

Reuters (many for example http://www.reuters.com/article/us-laptops- idUSN1019897920080110

Wall Street Journal

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-loses- virtual-reality- innovator-1462533373

http://online.wsj.com/ad/article/forwardthinking-jepsen.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-working- on-large- scale-display- technology-1412346897

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/opinion/sunday/bringing-back- my-real- self-with- hormones.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/technology/30laptop.html

Wired (many for example https://www.wired.com/2009/02/mf-netbooks/

https://www.wired.com/2009/07/a-look- back-at- the-olpc- xo-1- and-a- peek-at- the-road- ahead/

Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/15048695

Technology Review

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/419259/one-tablet- per-child/

Scientific American

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/googling-e- t-mind- reading-and- other-crazy- ideas/

IEEE Spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human- os/biomedical/imaging/why-mary- lou-jepsen- left-facebook- to-transform- heath-care- and-invent- consumer-telepathy

http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human- os/biomedical/devices/5-neuroscience- experts-weigh- in-on- elon-musks- mysterious-neural- lace-company

EE Times

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1229362

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1261632

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1261495

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1161792

Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-google- x-executive- jumps-ship- to-oculus- as-virtual- reality-explodes- 2015-3

Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/03/02/the-opposite- of-artificial- intelligence-could- be-the- key-to- saving-tech-jobs/#5393710662c4

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/03/07/why-we- should-be- learning-the- hidden-history- of-scientists/#c83abe0146ee

https://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer- negroponte-technology- cio-network- olpc.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/04/04/what-its- like-to- be-a- woman-entrepreneur- in-a- male-dominated-sector/#50b84c4a24ae

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2016/02/24/mark-zuckerberg- has-a- plan-to- make-virtual- reality-social/#455b694e31f1

Fortune

http://fortune.com/2016/10/25/brainstorm-health- livestream/

PC World

http://www.pcworld.com/article/201073/article.html

Re/Code

https://www.recode.net/2017/3/17/14954298/mary-lou- jepsen-opnwatr- reading-minds- wearable-mri-screens-recode-podcast

https://www.recode.net/2015/3/2/11559622/facebook-has- hired-mary- lou-jepsen- away-from- google-x

Xconomy

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2016/05/06/mary- lou-jepsen- on-life- post-facebook- and-new- startup-open-water/

http://www.xconomy.com/national/2017/06/22/introducing-xconomy-voices-podcast-episode-1-mary-lou-jepsen/

The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/15/14935440/wearable-tech- openwater-google- project-jacquard- levis-smart-jacket-sxsw- 2017