He attended Buckley School in New York, Fay School in Massachusetts, Le Rosey in Switzerland, and The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut, from which he graduated in 1961. Subsequently, he studied at MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student in Architecture where his research focused on issues of computer-aided design. Yona Friedman recalls having met Negroponte in 1964 when he was still a student at MIT, where he had discussed with Friedman his idea for an "Architecture Machine".[2][3] The architecture machine is considered by Negroponte to be a machine collaborator, who engages in an ongoing architectural design process with a human peer. Both machine and human participants engage in a process of mutual training and growth with each other, in order to harness the interactive potential found in peer-to-peer collaborations during an architectural design process with man and machine instead.[2] He earned a master's degree in architecture from MIT in 1966. Despite his accomplished academic career, Negroponte has spoken publicly about his dyslexia and his difficulty in reading.[4]
Career
MIT
Negroponte later joined the faculty of MIT in 1966. For several years thereafter he divided his teaching time between MIT and several visiting professorships at Yale, Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1967, Negroponte founded MIT's Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank which studied new approaches to human–computer interaction.[2] The Architecture Machine Group was primarily concerned in addressing the potential of computers in architecture. Negroponte argued during this period that computer aided design was only making activities such as architecture "faster", and that the underlying spirit of the architectural machine group would be to explore the various possibilities for generating collaborating machines for architectural design.[2][3] The contents of the research from the lab were composed into two books: The Architecture Machine: Towards a More Human Environment (1973), and Soft Architecture Machines (1976).[3] Participants in the group included the cyberneticianGordon Pask, who visited Negroponte as a consultant and whose article "Aspects of Machine Intelligence" became the introduction to the section on machine intelligence in Soft Architecture Machines.[5][6]
In 1985, Negroponte created the MIT Media Lab with Jerome B. Wiesner.[7] As director, he developed the lab into a pre-eminent laboratory for new media and a high-tech playground for investigating the human–computer interface. Negroponte also became a proponent of intelligent agents and personalized electronic newspapers,[8] for which he popularized the term the Daily Me.
Wired
In 1992, Negroponte became involved in the creation of Wired Magazine as the first investor. From 1993 to 1998, he contributed a monthly column to the magazine in which he reiterated a basic theme: "Move bits, not atoms."
Negroponte expanded many of the ideas from his Wired columns into a bestselling book Being Digital (1995),[9] which made famous his forecasts on how the interactive world, the entertainment world and the information world would eventually merge. Being Digital was a bestseller and was translated into some forty languages. Negroponte is a digital optimist who believed that computers would make life better for everyone.[10] However, critics such as Cass Sunstein[11] have criticised his techno-utopian ideas for failing to consider the historical, political and cultural realities with which new technologies should be viewed.
In the 1980s Negroponte predicted that wired technologies such as telephones would become unwired by using airwaves instead of wires or fiber optics, and that unwired technologies such as televisions would become wired—a prediction commonly referred to as the Negroponte switch.[12]
Later career
In 2000, Negroponte stepped down as director of the Media Lab as Walter Bender took over as executive director. However, Negroponte retained the role of laboratory 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 (Professor Post-Tenure of Media Arts and Sciences).[13]
In November 2005, at the World Summit on the Information Society held in Tunis, Negroponte unveiled the concept of a $100 laptop computer, The Children's Machine, designed for students in the developing world.[14] The price has increased to US$180, however. The project is part of a broader program by One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit organization started by Negroponte and other Media Lab faculty to extend Internet access in developing countries.
Negroponte is an active angel investor and has invested in over 30 startup companies over the last 30 years, including Zagats, Wired, Ambient Devices, Skype and Velti. He has sat on several boards, including Motorola (listed on the New York Stock Exchange) and Velti (listed on the NASDAQ and formerly on the London Stock Exchange[15] ). He is also on the advisory board of TTI/Vanguard. In August 2007, he was appointed to a five-member special committee with the objective of assuring the continued journalistic and editorial integrity and independence of the Wall Street Journal and other Dow Jones & Company publications and services. The committee was formed as part of the merger of Dow Jones with News Corporation.[16] Negroponte's fellow founding committee members are Louis Boccardi, Thomas Bray, Jack Fuller, and the late former Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn.
According to reporting from the MIT Technology Review, in response to the controversy of the MIT Media Lab accepting funding from Jeffrey Epstein five years after Epstein's conviction for sex trafficking minors, Negroponte told MIT staff, "If you wind back the clock, I would still say, 'Take it.'"[17]
Negroponte was reported to have said that in the fund-raising world these types of occurrences were not out of the ordinary, and they should not be reason enough to cut off business relationships. His comments supporting the donation from a convicted child sex offender reportedly left some of his listeners "stunned" and reduced one person present to tears.[18]
^ abcdNegroponte, Nicholas (1970). The Architecture Machine: Towards a More Human Environment. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN0-262-64010-4.
^ abcFurtado C. Lopes, Gonçalo M. (2009). Pask's Encounters: From a Childhood Curiosity to the Envisioning of an Evolving Environment. Vol. 9. Wien: edition echoraum. p. 96. ISBN978-3-901941-18-4.
^"Q & A with Nicholas Negroponte". C-SPAN. November 25, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
^Negroponte, Nicholas; Pask, Gordon (1976). "Aspects of Machine Intelligence". Soft Architecture Machines. USA: MIT Press. pp. 6–51. doi:10.7551/mitpress/6317.003.0003. ISBN978-0-262-36783-7.
^Schrage, Michael (October 7, 1985). "An MIT Lab Tinkers With the Future of Personal Computers". The Washington Post. p. 13.
^Negroponte, Nicholas (1991). "Products and Services for Computer Networks". Scientific American. 265 (3): 76–83. Bibcode:1991SciAm.265c.106N. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0991-106. ISSN 0036-8733.
^Negroponte, Nicholas (1999). Being Digital. New York: Knopf. ISBN0-679-76290-6.
^Hirst, Martin and Harrison, John (2007) Communication and New Media, Oxford University Press, p. 20
^Sunstein, C.R. (2001) Republic.com Princeton University Press
^Speaking at a Northern Telecom meeting in the mid-80s with George Gilder. Negroponte called it "trading places" Gilder called it "The Negroponte Switch". From Being Digital, 1995, Negroponte, N. ISBN0-340-64930-5 p 24.
^Person Overview ‹ Nicholas Negroponte – MIT Media Lab, at media.mit.edu (mit.edu)
^Kirkpatrick, David (November 28, 2005). "I'd Like to Teach the World to Type". Fortune. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
^. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
^Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2007. "Text of Dow Jones Editorial Agreement". Online edition. Retrieved October 21, 2007.
^MIT Technology Review, September 4, 2019. "MIT Media Lab founder: Taking Jeffrey Epstein’s money was justified". Online edition. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
^Chen, Angela. "MIT Media Lab founder: Taking Jeffrey Epstein's money was justified". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
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nicholas, negroponte, born, december, 1943, greek, american, architect, founder, chairman, emeritus, massachusetts, institute, technology, media, also, founded, laptop, child, association, olpc, negroponte, author, 1995, bestseller, being, digital, translated,. Nicholas Negroponte born December 1 1943 is a Greek American architect He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology s Media Lab and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association OLPC Negroponte is the author of the 1995 bestseller Being Digital translated into more than forty languages 1 Nicholas NegroponteNicholas Negroponte delivering the Forrestal Lecture to the US Naval Academy in Annapolis MD on April 15 2009Born 1943 12 01 December 1 1943 age 79 New York City New YorkOccupation s Academic and computer scientistChildrenDimitri Negroponte Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 MIT 2 2 Wired 3 Later career 4 Epstein controversy 5 References 6 External linksEarly life EditNegroponte was born to Dimitrios Negropontis Greek Negroponths a Greek shipping magnate and alpine skier and grew up in New York City s Upper East Side He has three brothers His elder one John Negroponte is the former United States Deputy Secretary of State Michel Negroponte is an Emmy Award winning filmmaker George Negroponte is an artist and was President of the Drawing Center from 2002 to 2007 He attended Buckley School in New York Fay School in Massachusetts Le Rosey in Switzerland and The Choate School now Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford Connecticut from which he graduated in 1961 Subsequently he studied at MIT as both an undergraduate and graduate student in Architecture where his research focused on issues of computer aided design Yona Friedman recalls having met Negroponte in 1964 when he was still a student at MIT where he had discussed with Friedman his idea for an Architecture Machine 2 3 The architecture machine is considered by Negroponte to be a machine collaborator who engages in an ongoing architectural design process with a human peer Both machine and human participants engage in a process of mutual training and growth with each other in order to harness the interactive potential found in peer to peer collaborations during an architectural design process with man and machine instead 2 He earned a master s degree in architecture from MIT in 1966 Despite his accomplished academic career Negroponte has spoken publicly about his dyslexia and his difficulty in reading 4 Career EditMIT Edit Negroponte later joined the faculty of MIT in 1966 For several years thereafter he divided his teaching time between MIT and several visiting professorships at Yale Michigan and the University of California Berkeley In 1967 Negroponte founded MIT s Architecture Machine Group a combination lab and think tank which studied new approaches to human computer interaction 2 The Architecture Machine Group was primarily concerned in addressing the potential of computers in architecture Negroponte argued during this period that computer aided design was only making activities such as architecture faster and that the underlying spirit of the architectural machine group would be to explore the various possibilities for generating collaborating machines for architectural design 2 3 The contents of the research from the lab were composed into two books The Architecture Machine Towards a More Human Environment 1973 and Soft Architecture Machines 1976 3 Participants in the group included the cybernetician Gordon Pask who visited Negroponte as a consultant and whose article Aspects of Machine Intelligence became the introduction to the section on machine intelligence in Soft Architecture Machines 5 6 In 1985 Negroponte created the MIT Media Lab with Jerome B Wiesner 7 As director he developed the lab into a pre eminent laboratory for new media and a high tech playground for investigating the human computer interface Negroponte also became a proponent of intelligent agents and personalized electronic newspapers 8 for which he popularized the term the Daily Me Wired Edit In 1992 Negroponte became involved in the creation of Wired Magazine as the first investor From 1993 to 1998 he contributed a monthly column to the magazine in which he reiterated a basic theme Move bits not atoms Negroponte expanded many of the ideas from his Wired columns into a bestselling book Being Digital 1995 9 which made famous his forecasts on how the interactive world the entertainment world and the information world would eventually merge Being Digital was a bestseller and was translated into some forty languages Negroponte is a digital optimist who believed that computers would make life better for everyone 10 However critics such as Cass Sunstein 11 have criticised his techno utopian ideas for failing to consider the historical political and cultural realities with which new technologies should be viewed In the 1980s Negroponte predicted that wired technologies such as telephones would become unwired by using airwaves instead of wires or fiber optics and that unwired technologies such as televisions would become wired a prediction commonly referred to as the Negroponte switch 12 Later career EditIn 2000 Negroponte stepped down as director of the Media Lab as Walter Bender took over as executive director However Negroponte retained the role of laboratory 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 Professor Post Tenure of Media Arts and Sciences 13 Mary Lou Jepsen Alan Kay and Nicholas Negroponte unveil the 100 laptop in November 2005 In November 2005 at the World Summit on the Information Society held in Tunis Negroponte unveiled the concept of a 100 laptop computer The Children s Machine designed for students in the developing world 14 The price has increased to US 180 however The project is part of a broader program by One Laptop Per Child a nonprofit organization started by Negroponte and other Media Lab faculty to extend Internet access in developing countries Negroponte is an active angel investor and has invested in over 30 startup companies over the last 30 years including Zagats Wired Ambient Devices Skype and Velti He has sat on several boards including Motorola listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Velti listed on the NASDAQ and formerly on the London Stock Exchange 15 He is also on the advisory board of TTI Vanguard In August 2007 he was appointed to a five member special committee with the objective of assuring the continued journalistic and editorial integrity and independence of the Wall Street Journal and other Dow Jones amp Company publications and services The committee was formed as part of the merger of Dow Jones with News Corporation 16 Negroponte s fellow founding committee members are Louis Boccardi Thomas Bray Jack Fuller and the late former Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn Negroponte has influenced modern day futurists such as David Houle citation needed Epstein controversy EditAccording to reporting from the MIT Technology Review in response to the controversy of the MIT Media Lab accepting funding from Jeffrey Epstein five years after Epstein s conviction for sex trafficking minors Negroponte told MIT staff If you wind back the clock I would still say Take it 17 Negroponte was reported to have said that in the fund raising world these types of occurrences were not out of the ordinary and they should not be reason enough to cut off business relationships His comments supporting the donation from a convicted child sex offender reportedly left some of his listeners stunned and reduced one person present to tears 18 References Edit Caves R W 2004 Encyclopedia of the City Routledge p 482 ISBN 9780415252256 a b c d Negroponte Nicholas 1970 The Architecture Machine Towards a More Human Environment Cambridge Massachusetts MIT Press ISBN 0 262 64010 4 a b c Furtado C Lopes Goncalo M 2009 Pask s Encounters From a Childhood Curiosity to the Envisioning of an Evolving Environment Vol 9 Wien edition echoraum p 96 ISBN 978 3 901941 18 4 Q amp A with Nicholas Negroponte C SPAN November 25 2007 Retrieved November 30 2014 Furtado C Lopes 2009 p 100 Negroponte Nicholas Pask Gordon 1976 Aspects of Machine Intelligence Soft Architecture Machines USA MIT Press pp 6 51 doi 10 7551 mitpress 6317 003 0003 ISBN 978 0 262 36783 7 Schrage Michael October 7 1985 An MIT Lab Tinkers With the Future of Personal Computers The Washington Post p 13 Negroponte Nicholas 1991 Products and Services for Computer Networks Scientific American 265 3 76 83 Bibcode 1991SciAm 265c 106N doi 10 1038 scientificamerican0991 106 ISSN 0036 8733 Negroponte Nicholas 1999 Being Digital New York Knopf ISBN 0 679 76290 6 Hirst Martin and Harrison John 2007 Communication and New Media Oxford University Press p 20 Sunstein C R 2001 Republic com Princeton University Press Speaking at a Northern Telecom meeting in the mid 80s with George Gilder Negroponte called it trading places Gilder called it The Negroponte Switch From Being Digital 1995 Negroponte N ISBN 0 340 64930 5 p 24 Person Overview Nicholas Negroponte MIT Media Lab at media mit edu mit edu Kirkpatrick David November 28 2005 I d Like to Teach the World to Type Fortune Retrieved December 12 2010 Velti Announces Date of AIM Delisting Archived from the original on March 5 2012 Retrieved August 27 2012 Wall Street Journal August 1 2007 Text of Dow Jones Editorial Agreement Online edition Retrieved October 21 2007 MIT Technology Review September 4 2019 MIT Media Lab founder Taking Jeffrey Epstein s money was justified Online edition Retrieved September 7 2019 Chen Angela MIT Media Lab founder Taking Jeffrey Epstein s money was justified MIT Technology Review Retrieved September 15 2019 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Nicholas Negroponte Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte at TED TEDxBrussels Nicholas Negroponte on OLPC on YouTube November 2009 Appearances on C SPAN C SPAN Q amp A interview with Negroponte November 25 2007 Nicholas Negroponte on Charlie Rose 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