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JD Albert is an American engineer, educator, and inventor. He is currently the Director of Engineering at Bresslergroup,^[1] a research-driven product innovation lab and consultancy in Philadelphia. He is also a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's Integrated Product Design program.

Career

Along with Barrett Comiskey, he developed the E Ink electronic paper display and cofounded its distributor, the E Ink Corporation. 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.

As Albert told Science Friday,^[2] "It was really true 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 years of research and experimentation, Comiskey and fellow MIT undergraduate JD Albert realized a working prototype.

Albert contributed a chapter on design thinking for early-stage startups to the book Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA.^[3] He has also contributed articles about product development to Entrepreneur.com^[4] and Wired.^[5]

In 2016, Albert was one of the youngest inventors to ever be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.^[6]^[7]

Personal life and education

Albert has a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering^[8] from MIT. He lives in Philadelphia.

References

^ "Bresslergroup". Bresslergroup. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
^ "How Electronic Ink Was Invented - Science Friday". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
^ Luchs, Michael G.; Swan, Scott; Griffin, Abbie (2015-11-02). Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA (1 edition ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118971802. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
^ Albert, JD. "JD Albert". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
^ Bresslergroup, JD Albert,. "Not Just for Coders: Hackathons for Hardware Innovation". Retrieved 2016-09-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "Spotlight | National Inventors Hall of Fame". invent.org. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
^ "JD Albert in Inventors Hall of Fame | Bresslergroup News". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
^ "LinkedIn".

[1] "Bresslergroup". Bresslergroup. Retrieved 2016-09-01.

[2] "How Electronic Ink Was Invented - Science Friday". Retrieved 2016-09-01.

[3] Luchs, Michael G.; Swan, Scott; Griffin, Abbie (2015-11-02). Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA (1 edition ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118971802. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)

[4] Albert, JD. "JD Albert". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2016-09-01.

[5] Bresslergroup, JD Albert,. "Not Just for Coders: Hackathons for Hardware Innovation". Retrieved 2016-09-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[6] "Spotlight | National Inventors Hall of Fame". invent.org. Retrieved 2016-09-01.

[7] "JD Albert in Inventors Hall of Fame | Bresslergroup News". Retrieved 2016-09-01.

[8] "LinkedIn".

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