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JD Albert

JD Albert

American engineer, inventor, and educator

JD Albert (born April 18, 1975) is an American engineer, inventor, 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 became one of the youngest inventors ever inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.[2] Albert is named on over 100 US patents.[3] He teaches product development in 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. [1]
    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. S2CID 204998708.
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    "JD Albert in Inventors Hall of Fame | Bresslergroup News". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
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    "jdalbert.com". jdalbert.com. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
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    "JD Albert". ipd.me.upenn.edu.
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    Primozic, Ursa (27 May 2016). "Interview with Barrett Comiskey". visionect.com. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
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    "How Electronic Ink Was Invented - Science Friday". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
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    Klein, Alec (4 January 2000). "A New Printing Technology Sets Off a High-Stakes Race". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
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    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.
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    Albert, JD. "JD Albert". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
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    Bresslergroup, JD Albert (13 January 2015). "Not Just for Coders: Hackathons for Hardware Innovation". Wired. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  11. [11]
    "TBP Member Search".
  12. [12]
    "LinkedIn".
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