Barrett Comiskey

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Barrett Comiskey (born September 18, 1975) is an American innovator. He is recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and was the youngest inductee into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame, for inventing and co-founding E Ink as an undergraduate at MIT[1][2]. He is currently the Founder of Migo.[3]

Career[]

E Ink[]

Comiskey is known for being one of the "fathers of E Ink."[4] At MIT, Comiskey invented the microencapsulated electrophoretic display, commercialized by E Ink, which he co-founded in 1997.

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 Joseph Jacobson challenged him to create a technology that would mimic the appearance of ink on paper.[5]

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.[4]

Over the next decade, Comiskey worked on the further development and industrialization of the technology at MIT and subsequently at E Ink,[6] in both Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Shanghai, China.[7]

For its role in the evolution of the publishing industry, E Ink has been called “the greatest innovation since Gutenberg.”[8]

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".[9]

Comiskey holds 72 patents.[10] He was recognized as a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum,[11] 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.

Nicobar Group[]

After E Ink, Comiskey co-founded Nicobar Group, a startup "helping Western manufacturers and private equity firms do work in Asia." Specifically, Nicobar develops strategy and executes technology and operations transfers in China. [12][13]

Migo[]

In 2009, Comiskey founded Migo,[14] a technology company focused on emerging markets. Backed by sovereign wealth fund Temasek, YouTube's co-founder and former CTO Steve Chen[15], Founder of Farallon Capital Management's Asian business Raymond Zage, Indonesia Stock Exchange commissioner Pandu Sjahrir, Provident Capital, members from the family of Hysan Development in Hong Kong, Vickers Venture Partners, and Singaporean businessman Koh Boon Hwee[16], its disruptive technology delivers digital products and services to mass market consumers, bypassing traditional telecom networks.

Migo launched its paid service in Indonesia in June 2020[17] and had 888 Migo Download Stations (MDS) as of November 29, 2021.[18]

The company has commercial operations in Indonesia, a "unique Innovation Center" in Taipei, Taiwan, and a support center in Manila, Philippines.[19]

Personal life and education[]

Comiskey holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University, a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT, and is an alumnus of Regis High School in New York City.[14]

Profiled by Esquire magazine as "The New American,"[7] Comiskey grew up in New York City and has been in Asia since 2004, living in Shanghai, Taipei, and Manila.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Primozic, Ursa (2016-05-27). "Interview with Barrett Comiskey, father of electronic ink: "Our objective was to give life to the surfaces around us"". Visionect. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  2. ^ "Barrett Comiskey". ContentAsia Summit. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  3. ^ a b "Migo". www.migo.tv. Archived from the original on 2015-12-10. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  4. ^ a b "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.
  5. ^ "How Electronic Ink Was Invented - Science Friday". Science Friday. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  6. ^ Klein, Alec. "A New Printing Technology Sets Off a High-Stakes Race". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  7. ^ a b Jones, Chris (2008-09-23). "The New American". Esquire. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  8. ^ McCrum, Robert. "E-read all about it". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  9. ^ 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. Bibcode:1998Natur.394..253C. doi:10.1038/28349. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 204998708.
  10. ^ "Patent Database: "Comiskey, Barrett" U.S. Patent Collection". patft.uspto.gov. Retrieved 2015-12-08.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ Journal, Erin WhiteStaff Reporter of The Wall Street (2005-05-24). "Going With Their Gut: MBA Graduates Take Entrepreneurial Plunge". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  13. ^ Jones, Chris (2008-09-23). "The New American". Esquire. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  14. ^ a b "Barrett Comiskey, LinkedIn". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  15. ^ Kynge, James; Ruehl, Mercedes (2020-08-19). "Do US sanctions spell 'death' of Huawei?". Financial Times. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  16. ^ "Video app Migo raises capital from YouTube co-founder, Gojek commissioners". KrASIA. 2020-09-07. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  17. ^ Mulia, Khamila. "Video app Migo raises capital from YouTube co-founder, Gojek commissioners". KrAsia. KrAsia. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
  18. ^ "Migo Indo hits 888 locations; platform eyes theatrical pop-ups". www.contentasia.tv. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  19. ^ "Episodes". Indo Tekno. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
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