Nicholas Negroponte

"We've been working for the last year, since Nicholas invited us, to show that we can do this," Kahle said. "We took all of the one million, six hundred thousand books and reformatted them to work with the OLPC laptop. "

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Commenting in the Irish Times (Lillington 2005) Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the MIT Media Lab, said that the research at MLE was "beyond hi wildest expectations"; he was critical of European companies for their unwillingness to invest in the lab and said: "Many visitors to MLE thought the work in Dublin was more edgy than at MIT. In this regard, Ireland received what it asked for in spades. The failing was economic and the financial model was freakishly untimely."

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"[T]he biggest mistake was not having Sugar run as an application "on a vanilla Linux laptop", said OLPC founder and chairman Nicholas Negroponte.

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"[Negroponte] said everything that can be converted from an atom to a bite, will be," he says. "That really hit home with me."

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"Nicholas Negroponte briefed his brother and other senior officials in the White House upon his return from Libya," the memo said. The memo was addressed to Abdullah Al Sanusi, termed "the client."

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Negroponte says: "The precise numbers today are 1.1 million [laptops] out and a back-log of 400,000-700,000, depending on how you count." When I asked him in January, he said: "There are 600,000 laptops in the field, 250,000 in transit and another 380,000 about to be made, so the total adds up to about 1.2m."

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"They complained that if women didn't do the laundry beside the river and at the fountain they would be alone, but other things started to serve those social purposes," said Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child program, a festival panelist, and Deborah Porter's significant other.

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"Putting Sugar on a stick is absolutely the right thing to do," Negroponte added.

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"OLPC has experienced great success when support for our mission comes from both the government (top down) as well as from grassroots (bottom up)," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop per Child. "The partnership with Rwanda represents a substantial commitment by both OLPC and Rwanda to bring learning to the grassroots and country level, which is exactly where it should be. "

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The XO-2 is still 18 months away from release, so "a lot can change with regard to Microsoft and Arm," Negroponte said.

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