Joseph Jacobson (born June 28, 1965 in Newton, Massachusetts), is a tenured professor and head of the Molecular Machines group at the Center for Bits and Atoms at the MIT Media Lab, and is one of the inventors of microencapsulated electrophoretic display[1] (known as E Ink) commonly used in electronic devices such as e-readers.
He was a postdoctoral research associate at Stanford University in experimental and theoretical nonlinear non-local quantum systems.
While at Stanford, he set the world record for the shortest pulse ever generated by a laser (in optical cycles).
[3] In 1997, Jacobson along with JD Albert, Barrett Comiskey, Russ Wilcox and Jerome Rubin founded E Ink Corporation.
[7] On 5 May 2016, Jacobson was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work in developing E Ink.