Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Laptop becomes reality for Uruguay's schoolchildren...Ortiz, Facundo's teacher. These energy-efficient portable computers equipped with the Linux operating system were invented by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Nicholas Negroponte. The US scientist founded "One... In this article: Uruguay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laptop, Linux, Calypso, and Homer |
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Indiana Times - The Economic Times | November 12, 2009
'Laptop per child can end learning by rote'
...aEUR™ - could be the way to weed out rote learning feels Professor Nicholas Negroponte, faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and founder chairman of OLPC. Speaking on the genesis of the OLPC concept , Negroponte said:...
In this article: Laptop, Nicholas Negroponte, India, All rights reserved, and Economic Times
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boston.com - Top arts and entertainment stories | October 22, 2009
Is this the end?
...absorbing relationship with text we've enjoyed for centuries. MIT technology guru Nicholas Negroponte would like to remind them that people resisted indoor plumbing, too. "They complained that if women didn't do the laundry beside the...
In this article: Tom Perrotta, Recession, MIT, Nicholas Negroponte, Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Cushing Academy
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Xconomy | October 24, 2009
Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to OLPC Laptops
...Book Festival in downtown Boston. Kahle said the announcement was the result of a year-long collaboration between the Internet Archive and the OLPC, founded by MIT computer scientist Nicholas Negroponte. "We've been working for the last...
In this article: Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, Nicholas Negroponte, Boston, MIT, Twitter, San Diego, and San Francisco
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | September 30, 2009
Computer dream sees light of day
...months ago on Elcho Island, in the Northern Territory. Championed by US academic and philanthropist Nicholas Negroponte and others at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the OLPC project sought to design a laptop computer that was...
In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Elcho Island, Australia, and US
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www.washingtonpost.com | January 03, 2007
Rwanda Joins Low-Cost Laptop Project
...during a meeting Tuesday between the central African nation's president, Paul Kagame, and Nicholas Negroponte, who launched the initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab two years ago. Similar agreements have...
In this article: Laptop, Rwanda, Linux, Nicholas Negroponte, Paul Kagame, Boston, and Cambridge
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Wikipedia | October 21, 2009
Nicholas Negroponte
...issues of computer-aided design. He earned a Master's degree in architecture from MIT in 1966. Negroponte joined the faculty of MIT in 1966. For several years thereafter he divided his teaching time between MIT and several visiting...
In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Wired, Velti, Being Digital, Dow Jones & Company, New York City, World Summit, and Choate Rosemary Hall
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Low-cost laptop production started
...in a new era of low-cost computing. The One Laptop per Child Foundation, started in 2005 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte, said Taiwan's Quanta Computer (2382. TW) had started mass production of its...
In this article: Classmate PC, Allama Iqbal Open University, Nicholas Negroponte, Intel Corp, Wal-Mart, Taiwan, Linux, Laptop, and Acer Inc
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MIT Media Lab
...in the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner (now deceased) and opened its doors in the Wiesner Building...
In this article: School of Architecture, Nicholas Negroponte, Laptop, and World Wide Web
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CNET News.com | November 12, 2008
Qualcomm designs low-cost PC alternative
...world. Nicholas Negroponte, the co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launched the One Laptop Per Child initiative, which is also trying to provide low-cost laptops to kids in developing regions. AMD,...
In this article: Qualcomm, Inventec, Paid Services, Cloud computing, Hulu, Itunes, AMD, CNET News, and YouTube
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Description from Wikipedia:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities and is also a sea-grant and space-grant university.
Founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the university adopted the German university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date. Its current 168 acre campus opened in 1916 and extends over 1 mi along the northern bank of the Charles River basin. MIT researchers were involved in efforts to develop computers, radar, and inertial guidance in connection with defense research during World War II and the Cold War. In the past 60 years, MIT's educational programs have expanded beyond the physical sciences and engineering into social sciences like economics, philosophy, linguistics, political science, and management.
MIT enrolled 4,172 undergraduates, 6,048 postgraduate students, and employed 1,008 faculty members in the 2007/08 school year. Its endowment and annual research expenditures are among the largest of any American university. 73 Nobel Laureates, 47 National Medal of Science recipients, and 31 MacArthur Fellows are currently or have previously been affiliated with the university. The aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni would be the seventeenth largest economy in the world.
- Name:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Type:
- Private
- Location City:
- Cambridge
- State:
- Massachusetts
- Location Country:
- U.S.
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1861
- Head:
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- Phillip Clay
- Susan Hockfield
- Associated With:
- NEASC, AAU, COFHE, NASULGC
- Endowment:
- US $7.5 billion
- Motto:
- Mens et Manus
- Campus:
- Urban, 168 acre
- Mascot:
- Beaver
- Colors:
- Cardinal Red and Steel Gray
- Undergrad:
- 4,172
- Postgrad:
- 6,048
- Faculty:
- 1,008
- Enrollment:
- 10,220
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