Nicholas Negroponte
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Alan Kay...Laptop per Child program, the Children's Machine, and the XO-1 . The program was begun and is sustained by Kay's friend, Nicholas Negroponte, and is based on Kay's Dynabook ideal. Kay is a prominent co-developer of the computer, focusing on its... In this article: Alan Curtis Kay, Walt Disney Imagineering, Squeak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PARC, Seymour Papert, Apple Computer, Smalltalk, and Sketchpad |
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Ars Technica | May 15, 2008
Former security director blasts OLPC, suggests new strategy
...at scale. There is no documented moderate-scale constructionist learning pilot that has been convincingly successful; when Nicholas points to 'decades of work by Seymour Papert, Alan Kay, and Jean Piaget', he's talking about theory. He likes...
In this article: Sugar, Linux, Seymour Papert, Intel, Senegal, Allegation, and Windows Mobile
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Wikipedia | October 21, 2009
Nicholas Negroponte
...Chairman. When Frank Moss was appointed director of the lab in 2006, Negroponte stepped down as lab chairman to focus more fully on his work with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) although he retains his appointment as professor at MIT. Mary Lou...
In this article: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wired, Velti, Being Digital, Dow Jones & Company, New York City, World Summit, and Choate Rosemary Hall
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Wikipedia | October 14, 2009
Computer-supported collaboration
...field reaches back to the late 1960s and the visionary assertions of Ted Nelson, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, Glenn Gould, Nicholas Negroponte and others who saw a potential for digital media to ultimately redefine how we work. A very...
In this article: E mail, IBM, Ted Nelson, Douglas Engelbart, Apple Computer, Alan Kay, U.S., Democracy, and Concurrent engineering
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Wikipedia | June 12, 2008
Communications, Computers, and Networks (Scientific American)
...in networks these days." An additional post to this same forum on 21 August 1991, comments: "The authors are exceptional, including Mitch Kapor, Mark Weiser, Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Kay, Al Gore, and many others. An excellent issue." Of...
In this article: Scientific American, Alan Kay, World Wide Web, Netscape, Mosaic, Communications, Computers, and Networks, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and University of Houston
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Wikipedia | September 04, 2009
Constructionism (learning theory)
...of constructionist learning. In 2005, Papert, together with Nicholas Negroponte and Alan Kay launched the One Laptop Per Child initiative to put constructionist learning into practice in the developing world. The aim is to provide $100...
In this article: Seymour Papert, Lego Group, Mathematics, Psychology, SimCity, Jean Piaget, and Alan Kay
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Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC).
- Birth Date:
- December 01, 1943
- Birthplace:
- New York City,
- Spouse:
- Elaine
- Occupation:
- Academic and Computer Scientist
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