Major Papers and Conference Lectures - Reverse Chronological Order
WITI (Women in Technology International), Hall of Fame Luncheon Round Table (Jepsen is a 2008 inductee into the Hall of Fame)
Keynote Address, Society for Information Display Mobile Computing Conference, Oct 2008, San Diego, CA (www.sid.org)
Video Features at Big Think (www.bigthink.com) 10+ shorts featuring Mary Lou Jepsen
IEEE/ACM ICCAD (Integrated Circuit Computer Aided Design) Keynote, November 10, 2008
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Keynote "From the Ivy League to the Jungle: getting laptops to the girls (and boys) in the developing world", Keystone, CO, October 2008
Sustainable Electronics Forum, Green Electronics Council, Lecture, September 3 2008, Yale University, New Haven CT
Athabasca University, Canada's largest open university, Honorary Doctorate Award and Address, Banff Canada, June 2008
World Science Festival, Green Electronics, May 2008, New York City
Brown University Commencement Lecture, Providence, RI May 24 2008
Society for Informational Display (SID) Annual Meeting Keynote "Why Displays Lead when designing computers for the very poorest" Los Angeles Convention Center, May 20 2008
Greener Gadgets, Keynote "What Green can be: lessons from One Laptop per Child", New York City, Feb1 2008
Design Heroix - a new lecture series "Design of the $100 laptop - the backstory - hard engineering, grueling travel, doing without sleep" New York City, January 2008
SID International Display Manufacturing Conference, Keynote, "How to go from specification to mass-production-ready in 6 months with a new display technology: a tail of the $100 laptop" Taipei, Taiwan, July 2007
USENIX 2007, Keynote, Santa Clara, CA June 2007 "Low cost laptops and open source software"
Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund ICT kickoff, Keynote, "Innovative Laptop design in Taiwan for the developing world" April 2007, Taipei, Taiwan
Defense Science Board Presentation (executive committees from US State Dept and US Dept of Defense), "$100 laptop Update", Washington DC, March 2007
Nature (Photonics) "A Technology Rollercoaster: Liquid crystal on silicon" January 2007 1, pp 267-277
SID Magazine, "Display leads the way to low cost laptop innovations" Editorial, December 2006
Hackers Conference Fireside Chat, "The inside, off-the-record story of One Laptop per Child", Monterey, CA, November 2006
The Women's Forum, "How do we maximize the Impact of the $100 laptop in the developing world", Deauville, France, October 2006
Asian Digital Libraries Conference, Keynote "A laptop that needs content: an update on the $100 laptop and how you can help", Kyoto, Japan, October 2006
mLearn, International Conference on Mobile Learning, Keynote "A laptop for mobile learning: an update on the hardware platform that will be ready next year", Banff Canada, Oct 2006,
MIT Media Lab Alumni Reunion, "Making a Difference - using our engineering skills for the developing world", Cambridge, MA, September 2006
SPIE Annual Meeting Keynote "How display design leads the way for low-cost laptop innovations" San Diego Convention Center, August 2006
IEEE Spectrum-USA Today Summer 2006 "Working on the $100 laptop"
SID Executive Business Conference Keynote, "Display design and the $100 laptop" San Francisco, CA, May 2006
International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) "Analog silicon for digital television and other oxymorons - why they make sense" San Francisco, February 2006
MIT-Hong Kong summit on Education and the Developing Word "Architecture of the $100 laptop", Hong Kong, December 2005
WSIS United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, Unveiling the $100 laptop with Kofi Annan, November 2005, Tunis, Tunisia
TTI/Vanguard Conference on "Evolving Systems" "Where are displays really going?" September 2005 Geneva
IEEE Computer Invited "Smoke, Mirrors and Manufacturable Displays" Summer 2005 (draft & preprint)
SID Annual Meeting 2005 Invited ""Why Analog Silicon May Be Best for LCOS Digital TV" Boston, Mass, May 2005 and Slideset
SPIE Photonics West 2005 Invited "A Future Roadmap for Microdisplays" Projection Display Conference, January, 2005 (lecture and paper)
Projection Monthly "Report from the International Display Workshop", Niigata, Japan, January 2005
US 6801285 “Thin cell gap microdisplay with optimum optical properties" October 2004 (with Hongqin Shi)
Holography, Special Issue: A Tribute to Professor Stephen A. Benton, Summer, 2004
IEEE LEOS 2003 (First inaugural Display conference) Invited “Lumen throughput for Front and Rear Projection Systems” Oct, 2003 (lecture and paper)
SID 2003 “Rear Projection TV: single panel LCOS lumen throughput" Baltimore, MD May 2003 (lecture and paper)
Bay Area SID meeting “ Single Panel LCOS for RPTV” Cupertino, CA march 2003 (lecture)
US 20030053017 (published, not yet issued) "Thin cell gap microdisplay with optimum optical properties" March, 2003 (with Hongqin Shi, Xioadong Wang)
SID IDMC 2003 Invited “Single Panel LCOS for RPTV" Taipei, Taiwan Feb 2003 (paper and lecture)
SID Microdisplay 2002 "LCOS Rear Projection Television: a comparison of single- and multi-panel projection engines" Sept, 2002 (paper and lecture)
Displays Magazine “High resolution LCOS Microdisplay for Single, Double of Triple panel Projection Systems” March, 2002 (paper)
SPIE Photonics West 2002 Invited “Microdisplay LCOS panel throughput estimate for low f-number projection systems" San Jose, CA Jan, 2002 (paper and lecture)
US 6307607 “Reflective liquid crystal display with integrated compensation for skew angle rotation and birefringence effects” October 2001 (with Jeff Shimizu, Sjoerd Stallinga, Peter Jannsen)
SID Microdisplay 2001 “0.9” Liquid Crystal on Silicon Panel with 450 Hz. field rate" Westminster CO, Sept, 2001 (paper) (with Josie Ammer, Misha Bolotski, Jean-Jacques Drolet, A Gupta, Yachai Lai, David Huffman, Hongqin Shi and Carlin Vieri)
US 6172792 “Method and apparatus for forming optical gratings” January 2001 (with Philip Alvelda)
Hackers Conference “Hacking your body” 11/00 (lecture and paper)
EETimes "LCOS charts path to active displays" July 2000 (paper, Cover story and picture)
SPIE Annual Meeting 2000 Invited “LCOS and the Future of Displays" San Diego, CA August, 2000 (lecture and paper)
SPIE “Novel Holographic Conformal Radiation System ” San Diego, CA, August 2000 (lecture)
SPIE “MicroDisplay Subsystem of a Wireless Handheld Computer” (with M. Bolotski) Orlando, FL, March 2000 (paper)
Hackers Conference “MicroDisplays for Projection Systems” 11/99 (lecture)
Applied Optics “Rectangular surface-relief transmission gratings with a very large first-order diffraction efficiency (~95%) for unpolarized light” (with H.J. Gerritsen) Vol. 37, No 25, 1 September 1998 pp. 5823-5829 (paper)
Hackers Conference “Wearable MicroDisplays” 11/97 (lecture)
SPIE Photonics West “Liquid Crystal Filled Diffraction Gratings,” San Jose, CA January 1997. (paper and lecture)
Hackers Conference “MicroDisplays with Liquid Crystal on Silicon” 11/96 (lecture)
Liquid crystal filled diffraction gratings, Ph.D. thesis, Brown University, October 1996. (paper and lecture)
Optical Society of America Annual Meeting “High diffraction efficiencies for liquid-crystal filled, 0.5 micron period, transmissive diffraction gratings,” Rochester, NY, October 20-24, 1996 (paper and lecture)
Optical Society of America Annual Meeting “Applications and performance of transmissive, scatter-free, liquid crystal filled, 0.5 micron period, diffractive devices,” Rochester, NY, October 20-24, 1996 (paper and lecture)
Optical Society of America Annual Meeting “Hybrid holographic-lithographic fabrication technique for 0.25 micron feature, high aspect ratio, large-area diffraction gratings,” Rochester, NY, October 20-24, 1996 (paper and lecture)
Optics Letters (OSA) “Liquid crystal filled gratings with high diffraction efficiency,” (with H.J. Gerritsen) Vol. 21, July 15, 1996.(paper)
Hackers Conference “Holographic Radio Surgery” 11/95 (lecture)
Massachusetts General Hospital, Neuro-Endocrine Clinical Center "Non-secreting pituitary tumor: a patients account" 1995
Hackers Conference “MoonTV” 11/94 (lecture)
Computer Graphics Proceedings (1994) Annual Conference Series, ACM SIGGRAPH “Art and Technology: Very Large Scale Integration,” Panelist, 1994 p. 487-488. (panel and short paper)
SPIE's OE Reports “Hologram Projection into Huge Spaces,” No. 110, p. 7, February 1993, (also published in Holography, Volume 3, No.1, February 1993).
Proc. SPIE Vol. 1732 “Optical Transfer of Master Hologram with 20 Meter Depth,” (with P. Dawson) Holographics International '92, Y. Denisyuk; F. Wyrowski; Eds. 1992, p. 387-396. (paper and lecture)
Proc. SPIE Vol. 1667 “Lunar-Illuminated Outdoor Hologram,” (with P. Dawson) Practical Holography VI, S.A. Benton; Ed. 1992, p. 207-214. (paper and lecture)
Proc. SPIE Vol. 1212 “Electronic Display System for Computational Holograms,” (with P. St. Hillaire, S.A. Benton, M. Lucente, J. Kollin, H. Yoshikawa, and J. Underkoffler) Practical Holography IV, S.A. Benton; Ed. 1990, p 174-182. (paper)
Proc. SPIE Vol. 1136 “Real-time Display of 3-D Computed Holograms by Scanning the Image of an Acousto-optic Modulator,” (with J. Kollin and S.A. Benton) Holographic Optics II: Principles and Applications, G.M. Morris; Ed. 1990, p. 178-200.
“Holographic Video: design and implementation of a display system,” Master of Science Thesis, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge Mass. May,1989.
SPIE Electronic Imaging East “Synthesis of a Multiple Hologram in a Single Photographic Step Using Computer Generated Images,” (with H.J. Gerritsen) World Trade Center, Boston, Mass 1988. (paper and lecture)
Applied Optics “Holographic Recordings of Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays,” (with H.J. Gerritsen) Vol. 26, No. 17, September 1, 1987. (paper)
Applied Optics “Transmission Diffraction Gratings Composed of One Material with Anomalous Dispersion in the Visible Region,” (with H.J. Gerritsen and K. Feria) Vol. 27, No. 13, July 1 1988. (paper)
Naval Underwater Systems Center Technical Memorandum “Improved Powerline Transient Measuring System and Compiled Data on Radio Room Equipment in Trident Submarines,” February 1987. (paper)