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...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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Negroponte Seeks a Laptop CEO Technology March 5, 2008, 4:35PM EST After weathering an acrimonious split from Intel and harsh criticism from critics, One Laptop Per Child is reorganizing-and looking for a CEO Nicholas Negroponte, founder...

In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, Advanced Micro Devices, BusinessWeek, Google, Linux, and Classmate PC

...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...

In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Internet Archive, Twitter, San Diego, Boston, and Seattle

...in America later in 2008. Spending plan The One Laptop project was begun by former MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte with the aim of helping poorer nations bridge the digital divide. The program has developed the rugged XO laptop...

In this article: United States, Nicholas Negroponte, MIT, and Bangladesh

...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...

In this article: John D. Negroponte, Peru, Nicholas Negroponte, and Lima

...it laid off half its staff. "OLPC will be dedicated to bringing the cost of the laptop down to Zero for the Least Developed Countries -- the $0 Laptop," OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte wrote in a blog entry. The bold goal-setting came on...

In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Apple, Amazon.com, Iphone, MacBook, and Steve Jobs

...System to the open source community. "Separately," Negroponte wrote, "OLPC will be dedicated to bringing the cost of the laptop down to Zero for the Least Developed Countries - the $0 Laptop. " It's a sad, but not unexpected, turning...

In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Middle East, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

...through the Cambridge nonprofit One Laptop per Child. Patriots Charitable Foundation president Josh Kraft and One Laptop founder Nicholas Negroponte joined him at the photo op. "You guys are going to have to teach me a lot," joked...

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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...

In this article: Sugar, Fedora Linux, Nicholas Negroponte, Microsoft Windows, XO-1 Laptop, Microsoft, and Classmate PC