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One Laptop Project reaches critical stages Feb 09, 2006

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One Laptop Project reaches critical stages Feb 09, 2006

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Feature: Charges as India-MIT deal fails May 13, 2003

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Future wireless 'Net to change telecom Jul 24, 2002

What's happening isn't just that telephone companies have taken on too much debt
Future wireless 'Net to change telecom Jul 24, 2002

Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC).

Negroponte was born to Dimitri John, a Greek shipping magnate, grew up in New York City's Upper East Side. He is the younger brother of John Negroponte, former United States Deputy Secretary of State.

He attended many schools, including Buckley (NYC), Le Rosey (Switzerland) and Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut where he graduated in 1961. Subsequently, he studied at MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student in Architecture where his research focused on issues of computer-aided design. He earned a Master's degree in architecture from MIT in 1966.

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