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Nicholas Negroponte
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Interview
Biography
Nicholas Negroponte is a founder and the director of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT)  uniquely innovative Media Laboratory. Theten-year-old Media Lab,
an interdisciplinary, multi million dollar researchcenter of unparalled intellectual and
technological resources, is focused exclusively on study and experimentation with future
forms of humancommunication, from entertainment to education. Programmes include:
Television of Tomorrow, School of the Future, Information and Entertainment Systems, and
Holography. Media Lab research is supported by Federal contracts as well as by more than
seventy-five corporations worldwide. Negroponte is also co-founder and columnist for Wired
magazine.Negroponte studied at MIT, where as a graduate student he specialized in the then
new field of computer aided design. He joined the Institute's faculty in 1966, and for
several years thereafter divided his teaching time between MIT and visiting professorships
at Yale, Michigan, and the University of California at Berkeley.In 1968 he also founded
MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank responsible
for many radically new approaches to the human-computer interface. In 1980, he served a
term as founding chairman of the International Federation of Information Processing
Societies' Computers in Everyday Life program. Two years later, Negroponteaccepted the
French government's invitation to become the first executivedirector of the Paris-based
World Center for Personal Computation and Human Development, an experimental project
originally designed to explore computer technology's potential for enhancing primary
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Bibliography
- "Being Digital", Alfred A. Knopf,1995. Scientific American, September 1991;
- "Soft Architecture Machine", MIT Press, 1975;
- "Computer Aids to Design and Architecture", Petrocelli/Charter, 1975;
- "The Architecture Machine", MIT Press, 1970.
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