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Mary Lou Jepsen (born 1964 or 1965) is an executive at Facebook / Oculus VR.〔http://recode.net/2015/03/02/facebook-has-hired-mary-lou-jepsen-away-from-google-x/〕 Among her objectives at Facebook is leading a concerted effort to bring Virtual Reality to the next level. Previously she was Head of the Display Division at Google X where she led more than one "Moon Shot" program, reported to Sergey Brin, and advised and directed display and consumer electronic programs throughout Google. The Wall Street Journal reported that among her projects there she created Google Lego TV: displays composed of smaller screens that plug together like Legos to create vast, seamless images and "live walls" .. in other words from wall size interaction, television, video conferencing and gaming to virtual reality without having to wear anything on your face or body.〔http://www.fastcodesign.com/3036692/fast-feed/google-is-inventing-screens-that-snap-together-like-lego〕 She is also founder and former CEO of Pixel Qi in Taipei, Taiwan, focused on innovative opto-electronic architectures and the manufacturer thereof. Pixel Qi delivers high performance, low-power, sunlight-readable screens for mobile devices. The long term vision of Pixel Qi is to create devices that never need be recharged through a two prong approach 1) lowering the power consumption of the device through innovative screen and power management technology and 2) using alternative power generation and battery technologies. She was the co-founder and the first chief technology officer of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) a non-profit that generated more than $1B in revenue and helped create $30B in revenue for its for-profit partners. There she architected the $100 laptop with new screen architectures, new very low power management architecture, new battery technology, new mesh networking protocol, and new user interface all in record time – and shipped millions of them in an effort to start to transform education opportunities for children in the developing world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mary Lou Jepsen )〕 She was named to the "Time 100", an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time Magazine. In 2013 she was named one of the CNN 10: a list of top 10 thinkers in science and technology by CNN for her work in rethinking functional brain imaging with higher resolution more compact systems which can ultimately lead to communication directly via human thought.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The CNN 10: Thinkers )〕 == Early life and education == Jepsen studied Studio Art and Electrical Engineering at Brown University. She received a Master of Science in Holography from the MIT Media Lab, and then returned to Brown to receive a Ph.D. in Optical Sciences.〔() 〕 Her contributions have had worldwide adoption in head-mounted display, HDTV and projector products. Her PhD work combined rigorous theoretical coupled-wave analysis with lab work, in which she created large-scale, embossed surface-relief diffraction gratings with liquid crystal-filled grooves with high diffraction efficiency in un-polarized illumination.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Liquid crystal filled diffraction gratings )〕 Jepsen has created some of the largest ambient displays ever. In Cologne, Germany she built a holographic replica of pre-existing buildings in the city's historic district...and created a holographic display encompassing a city block.〔() 〕 She also conceived, built mathematical models of, resolved the fundamental engineering issues, and solved some of the logistics – to create what would have been the largest display ever for mankind: images displayed on the darkened moon. She co-created the first holographic video system in the world at the MIT Media Lab in 1989, where the interference structure of the hologram was computed at video rates, and shown on her hand-made display.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=DSpace@MIT: Holographic video : design and implementation of a display system )〕 This system inspired a new subfield of holographic video and received numerous awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Holography Pioneer Stephen A. Benton )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Lou Jepsen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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