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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. The ten-year-old Media
Lab, an interdisciplinary, multi million dollar research center of unparalleled
intellectual and technological resources, is focused exclusively on study and
experimentation with future forms of human communication, 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, Negroponte accepted the French government's invitation to become
the first executive director of the Paris-based World Center for Personal Computation and
Human Development, an experimental project originally designed to explore computer
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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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