JD Albert
JD Albert(born April 18, 1975) is an American engineer, inventor, and educator. Albert is one of the inventors of microencapsulated electrophoretic display (known asE Ink) commonly used in electronic devices such ase-readers.[1]
In 2016 Albert became one of the youngest inventors ever inducted into theNational Inventors Hall of Fame.[2]Albert is named on over 100 US patents.[3]He teaches product development in theUniversity of Pennsylvania's Integrated Product Design (IPD) program.[4]
Career
[edit]Along withBarrett Comiskey,he developed theE Inkdisplay. The two invented E Ink while they were undergraduates atMIT.MIT Media LabprofessorJoseph Jacobsonrecruited them to create a technology that mimicked pages in a book.[5]As Albert told Science Friday,[6]"It was... experimental discovery.... We had ideas, we were doing a lot of research, reading a lot of patents — many of which were expired patents — recreating experiments, and really, truly forging ahead to make this thing work. It involved a lot of prototypes, and it involved a huge amount of failed experiments." In 1997, after years of research and experimentation, Comiskey and fellow MIT undergraduate JD Albert realized a working prototype.
In 1997, Albert, Comiskey and Jacobson along with Russ Wilcox and Jerome Rubin foundedE Ink Corporation.[7]
Albert contributed a chapter on design thinking for early-stage startups to the bookDesign Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA.[8]He has also contributed articles about product development toEntrepreneur[9]andWired.[10]
Albert is a member ofTau Beta Pi,the engineering honor society.[11]
Personal life and education
[edit]Albert has a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering[12]from MIT. He lives in Philadelphia.
References
[edit]- ^Comiskey, Barrett (18 May 1998). "An electrophoretic ink for all-printed reflective electronic displays".Nature.394(6690): 253–255.Bibcode:1998Natur.394..253C.doi:10.1038/28349.S2CID204998708.
- ^"JD Albert in Inventors Hall of Fame | Bresslergroup News".Retrieved2016-09-01.
- ^"jdalbert.com".jdalbert.com.Retrieved2017-03-11.
- ^"JD Albert".ipd.me.upenn.edu.
- ^Primozic, Ursa (27 May 2016)."Interview with Barrett Comiskey".visionect.com.Retrieved11 March2017.
- ^"How Electronic Ink Was Invented - Science Friday".Retrieved2016-09-01.
- ^Klein, Alec (4 January 2000)."A New Printing Technology Sets Off a High-Stakes Race".Wall Street Journal.Retrieved14 March2017.
- ^Luchs, Michael G.; Swan, Scott; Griffin, Abbie (2015-11-02).Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA(1 ed.). Wiley-Blackwell.ISBN9781118971802.
- ^Albert, JD."JD Albert".Entrepreneur.Retrieved2016-09-01.
- ^Bresslergroup, JD Albert (13 January 2015)."Not Just for Coders: Hackathons for Hardware Innovation".Wired.Retrieved2016-09-01.
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- ^"LinkedIn".
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