Nicholas Negroponte

...some publicity; Anderson Cooper did a piece on this for 60 Minutes two years ago. I would also consider the One Laptop per Child project by Nicholas Negroponte. If the president wanted something closer to home, perhaps something involving New...

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...and education-software efforts. But last time we talked with Negroponte, back in January, he had ambitious plans for rebooting the One Laptop effort, with an emphasis on getting the computers into new markets. We wondered how the...

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When Negroponte's nonprofit One Laptop per Child foundation approached the Indian government in 2006, his project was again rebuffed by India's then-Education Secretary, Sudeep Banerjee (BusinessWeek.com, 8/16/06). Two years...

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...road. Founded in 2005 by former MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte, the One Laptop program has retreated from early boasts that developing-world governments would snap up millions of the pint-size machines at $100 each. In a...

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...Ito, who's jetting across the Pacific. The maelstrom of people and ideas includes the likes of Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, the World Bank's Daniel Kaufmann and One Laptop per Child's Nicholas Negroponte. If your thought-leader status was...

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...Will Poole joined as co-chairman. And earlier this year, Lindsay Petrillose, who worked on Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child program, joined NComputing to be government affairs liaison. NComputing uses virtualization software...

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...elements of the XO laptop in the market place. And Ivan Krstic, the former Director of Security Architecture at One Laptop per Child calls out the errors of Negroponte's statements on his blog. In it he reminds us that Sugar has become the...

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In January 2005, Jepsen joined Nicholas Negroponte to lead the design, partnering, development and manufacture of the laptop, and for the entire first year of the effort was the only employee of One Laptop per Child OLP. By the end...

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...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...

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