JD Albert

JD Albert (born 1975) is an American engineer, inventor, businessman and educator. Albert is one of the inventors of microencapsulated electrophoretic display (known as E Ink) commonly used in electronic devices such as e-readers.[1]

In 2016 Albert was one of the youngest inventors to ever be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.[2] Albert is named on over 78 granted US patents.[3] He is currently lecturers in mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania's Integrated Product Design (IPD) program.[4]

Career

Along with Barrett Comiskey, he developed the E Ink display. The two invented E Ink while they were undergraduates at MIT. MIT Media Lab professor Joseph Jacobson recruited 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 founded E Ink Corporation.[7]

Albert contributed a chapter on design thinking for early-stage startups to the book Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA.[8] He has also contributed articles about product development to Entrepreneur[9] and Wired.[10]

Albert is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. [11]

Personal Life and Education

Albert has a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering[12] from MIT. He lives in Philadelphia.

References

  1. ↑ Comiskey, Barrett (18 May 1998). "An electrophoretic ink for all-printed reflective electronic displays". Nature (394): 253–255. doi:10.1038/28349. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "JD Albert in Inventors Hall of Fame | Bresslergroup News". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  3. ↑ "jdalbert.com". jdalbert.com. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  4. ↑ "JD Albert". bresslergroup.com. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  5. ↑ Primozic, Ursa. "Interview with Barrett Comiskey". visionect.com. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "How Electronic Ink Was Invented - Science Friday". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  7. ↑ Klein, Alec. "A New Printing Technology Sets Off a High-Stakes Race". wsj.com. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  8. ↑ Luchs, Michael G.; Swan, Scott; Griffin, Abbie (2015-11-02). Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA (1 ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118971802.
  9. ↑ Albert, JD. "JD Albert". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  10. ↑ Bresslergroup, JD Albert,. "Not Just for Coders: Hackathons for Hardware Innovation". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  11. ↑ "TBP Member Search".
  12. ↑ "LinkedIn".
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