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Nicholas Negroponte - One Laptop per Child
Professor Nicholas Negroponte is Founder and Chairman of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology.
Each OLPC laptop has 100 books on it. That doesn't take much space, its pretty trivial. But when you ship 100 laptops to an African village, which we have done many times, each laptop has 100 different books, so that's 10,000 books.
Most people in this room did not have 10,000 books at primary school. You can't physically get 10,000 paper books to these kinds of places.
— Nicholas Negroponte, May 2011
A graduate of MIT, Negroponte was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, and has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1966. Conceived in 1980, the Media Laboratory opened its doors in 1985.
He is also author of the 1995 best seller, Being Digital, which has been translated into more than 40 languages. In the private sector, Nicholas Negroponte serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc. and as general partner in a venture capital firm specializing in digital technologies for information and entertainment. He has provided start-up funds for more than 40 companies, including Wired magazine.
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