Joseph Jacobson, a native and resident of
Newton, Massachusetts, is a tenured professor and head of the Molecular Machines group at the Center for Bits and Atoms at the
MIT Media Lab, and developed an early type of
electronic ink. He is the founder of several companies including
E Ink Corporation, Gen9, Inc., and
Kovio, is on the scientific board of several more companies (such as Epitome Biosystems).