Joseph Jacobson

Who is Joseph Jacobson?

Joseph Jacobson is Associate Professor at the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology (MIT) where he is co-PI of the Center for Bits

and Atoms and leads the Molecular Machine Group. His group at MIT is

focused on pioneering the field of Avogadro Scale Engineering with

applications in novel computing machines and synthetic biology.

Jacobson

received his PhD in Physics from MIT and was a post-doctoral fellow at

Stanford in the area of Quantum Optics. He is the recipient of a 1999

Technology Review TR100 Award for Innovation, The 2000 Gutenberg Prize

and a 2001 Discover Award. He has authored over 70 peer reviewed papers

and conference proceedings in the fields of femotosecond lasers,

quantum optics, molecular electronics, nano-chemistry and synthetic

DNA. In the private sector Jacobson was co-founder of E Ink, Kovio and

Codon Devices and is a founding board member of One Laptop Per Child

(OLPC) which is focused on developing a $100 laptop for kids.