Barrett Comiskey

Barrett Comiskey is an American innovator. He is the founder and CEO of Migo.[1]

Career

Comiskey is known for being one of the "fathers of E Ink."[2] At MIT, Comiskey invented the microencapsulated electrophoretic display, commercialized by E Ink, which he co-founded in 1997.[3]

He began developing the E Ink display during nights and weekends at the MIT Media Lab in 1995, at the age of 19, after MIT professor Joe Jacobson challenged him to create a technology that would mimic the appearance of ink on paper.[3][4]

Comiskey ultimately conceived of the microencapsulated electrophoretic display, which overcame the many practical challenges faced by previous attempts at realizing workable particle-based displays. In 1997, after years of research and experimentation, Comiskey and fellow MIT undergraduate JD Albert realized a working prototype.[2]

Over the next decade, Comiskey worked on the further development and industrialization of the technology at MIT and subsequently at E Ink,[5] in both Cambridge, Massachusetts and Shanghai, China.[6]

For its role in the evolution of the publishing industry, E Ink has been called “the greatest innovation since Gutenberg.”[7]

While still an undergraduate at MIT, Comiskey was published as first author of the May 1998 cover article of Nature magazine, "An electrophoretic ink for all-printed reflective electronic displays".[8]

Comiskey holds 72 patents.[9] He was recognized as a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum,[10] and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2016 for the invention and commercialization of E Ink, together with Joe Jacobson and JD Albert.[3]

Comiskey founded Migo in 2009.[11] Migo develops and deploys new technologies to close the digital divide in emerging markets.[1]

Personal Life and Education

Comiskey holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University, a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT and attended Regis High School in New York City.[3][11]

Profiled by Esquire magazine as "The New American,"[6] Comiskey grew up in New York City, and has been in Asia since 2004, living in Shanghai, Taipei and Manila.[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Migo". www.migo.tv. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  2. 1 2 "Interview with Barrett Comiskey, father of electronic ink: "Our objective was to give life to the surfaces around us"". Interview with Barrett Comiskey, father of electronic ink: “Our objective was to give life to the surfaces around us” | The paper | Visionect. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Spotlight: Barrett Comiskey, National Inventors Hall of Fame". invent.org. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
  4. ↑ "How Electronic Ink Was Invented - Science Friday". Science Friday. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  5. ↑ Klein, Alec. "A New Printing Technology Sets Off a High-Stakes Race". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  6. 1 2 Jones, Chris (2008-09-23). ["http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4958/new-american-1008/" "The New American"] Check |url= value (help). Esquire. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  7. ↑ McCrum, Robert. "E-read all about it". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  8. ↑ Comiskey, Barrett; Albert, J. D.; Yoshizawa, Hidekazu; Jacobson, Joseph (1998-07-16). "An electrophoretic ink for all-printed reflective electronic displays". Nature. 394 (6690): 253–255. doi:10.1038/28349. ISSN 0028-0836.
  9. ↑ "Patent Database: "Comiskey, Barrett" U.S. Patent Collection". patft.uspto.gov. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  10. ↑ "The World Economic Forum Designates Technology Pioneers for 2002: Barrett Comiskey, Co-Founder of E Ink Corporation, Selected.". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  11. 1 2 "Barrett Comiskey, LinkedIn". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
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