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 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
[edit | edit source]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 a year 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]
Personal life and education
[edit | edit source]Albert has a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering[11] from MIT. He lives in Philadelphia.
References
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