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From Screen Queen to Imaging Innovator -- Mary Lou Jepsen has lead Facebooks virtual reality efforts, advised Googles Sergey Brin and invented $100 laptops. Now she is turning her consumer electronics experience to the task of curing disease. After decades of working in display divisions at some of Silicon Valleys biggest companies, her goal is to shrink todays massive MRI machines into wearable devices that continuously scan the body. Jepsens 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 and complex software. These LCDs are small and light enough that they could line a beanie or a bandage. The implications of a wearable body imaging system are significant for detecting and treating cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and even mental illnesses. Join us as Mary Lou Jepsen discusses her Silicon Valley history, her company on the cutting edge of tech and medicine and her vision for the future of body imaging and healthcare. Until mid-2016 she led advanced consumer electronics and virtual reality at Facebook and Oculus. Previously she had a similar role at Google and Google [x], where she was also a close advisor to Sergey Brin. She co-founded One Laptop per Child (OLPC) with Nicholas Negroponte, and was the lead inventor and architect of the $100 laptop. She holds a PhD in optical physics and 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.

She.. is fascination; her presentation is Fascinating, as unless she's just presented a fantastical sci-fi-plot [???] in her head: THIS, being developed with a clear map to conclusion of a CHEAP product:

will gut the $50 BILLION / YEAR cost of the Murican Greed-opoly MRI middle-Men to peanuts (oh. and. it will soon read back what you are Thinking,) via micron-size determination of which neurons are getting the most oxygen, as you Look.

("Open Water" seems either the title of her Company or of the project; haven't done google-duty.. yet.)

KQED blurb on Radiolab.

exemplified (in this merely convenient lexicography and its example

crass
adjective

crass assumptions about women: stupid, insensitive, mindless, thoughtless, ignorant, witless, oafish, boorish, asinine, coarse, gross, graceless, tasteless, tactless, clumsy, heavy-handed, blundering. ANTONYMS intelligent.

Seriously considering the book limned.. although it is such a familiar-Pain ... whenever one turns over That Megaton-rock, sees what crawls out.. no?

(Don't think that a 'democracy' can much longer waddle-on in Name only, amidst the now massive undercurrents (on all topics) of organized, inculcated pig-ignorance.)

Think.. Boseman Montana last night.. wonder how That will fly, given that so many votes were already cast. But: with same-day registration there: Ya think ???
A perfect time to formally-Diss the Orange One, but seems improbable.