Interview with OLPC's Founding CTO Mary Lou Jepsen, by Sean Daly (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

Groklaw has an interview with Mary Lou Jepsen. "Mary Lou Jepsen will go down in history as the founding Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop Per Child. She has recently announced that she is starting her own for-profit company, Pixel Qi, to commercialize some of the technologies she invented at OLPC while extending them. She calls it "a spin-out from One Laptop per Child." And so naturally we had questions. Does this mean we will all soon be able to get an XO-like laptop for adults, no matter where we live? Sean Daly had the opportunity to conduct an email interview with Jepsen, and so we were able to get some answers to that and many other questions."

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Interview with OLPC's Founding CTO Mary Lou Jepsen, by Sean Daly (Groklaw)

Posted Jan 8, 2008 19:54 UTC (Tue) by boog (subscriber, #30882) [Link]

Well worth a read; she sounds like an extraordinary person. At least from the interview it
seems as if several, if not many, of the technological breakthroughs of the OLPC are directly
due to her, and she has clearly put her all into making the project a success. Maybe this was
all common knowledge, but I didn't know it - Sean Daly/Groklaw have done very timely and
interesting interview. The interview includes a fairly stinging technical comparison of the
Intel Classmate and the OLPC.