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Nicholas Negroponte is the Wiesner Professor of Media
Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding
chairman of MIT's
Media Laboratory. Professor Negroponte also serves as chairman of Media
Lab Europe, the Lab's sister institution in Ireland.
Professor Negroponte
studied at MIT and has been an MIT faculty member since 1966. He was
the founder of MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, a combination
lab and think tank responsible for many radically new approaches to the human-computer
interface. In 1995, he published The New York Times bestseller Being Digital,
which has been translated into over 40 languages.
In the private sector, Professor
Negroponte serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc., and as a special
general partner in a venture capital firm
focusing on technologies for information and entertainment. He was a founder
of WiReD magazine and has been an "angel investor" for over 40 start-ups,
including three in China. Most recently, Professor Negroponte helped to establish,
and serves as chairman of, the 2B1 Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing
computer access to children in the most remote and poorest parts of the world.
Professor Negroponte’s lecture topics include:
- Things That Think
- News in the Future
- Television Tomorrow
- Perceptual Computing
- Learning and Common Sense
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