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<H2 CLASS="chm-event-text chm-event-abstract chm-clear">Mary Lou Jepsen in Conversation with Museum CEO John Hollar</H2>
<P CLASS="chm-event-text chm-event-abstract chm-clear">Mary Lou Jepsen has lead Facebook's virtual reality efforts, advised Google's Sergey Brin & invented $100 laptops. Now she is turning her consumer electronics experience to the task of curing disease.<BR> <BR> After decades of working in display divisions at some of Silicon Valley's biggest companies, her goal is to shrink today's massive MRI machines into wearable devices that continuously scan the body. Jepsen's new company, OpnWatr.io, is developing technology that uses the way the body scatters infrared light to develop high resolution images equal to those produced by MRI. This is enabled by novel LCDs with pixels small enough to create holographic images, coupled with the use of body-temperature detectors & complex software. These LCDs are small & light enough that they could line a beanie or a bandage. The implications of a wearable body imaging system are significant for detecting & treating cancer, cardiovascular diseases, & even mental illnesses. <BR> <BR> Join us as Mary Lou Jepsen discusses her Silicon Valley history, her company on the cutting edge of tech & medicine & her vision for the future of body imaging & healthcare. Until mid-2016 she led advanced consumer electronics & virtual reality at Facebook & Oculus. Previously she had a similar role at Google & Google [x], where she was also a close advisor to Sergey Brin. She co-founded One Laptop per Child (OLPC) with Nicholas Negroponte, & was the lead inventor & architect of the $100 laptop. She holds a PhD in optical physics & an ScB in electrical engineering both from Brown University as well as an ScM in computational holography from the MIT Media Lab. She is an inventor on over 100 published or issued patents. <BR> <BR> This event will be streamed live on our Facebook page: <A HREF="https://www.facebook.com/computerhistory/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">facebook.com/computerhistory</A>.<BR></P>
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