Author bio
Nicholas Negroponte
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: nicholas@media.mit.edu). Mr. Negroponte is a founder and the director of MIT's uniquely innovative Media Laboratory, which focuses exclusively on the study and experimentation of future forms of human and machine communication, from entertainment to education. He studied at MIT, where as a graduate student he specialized in the then-new field of computer-aided design. He joined the faculty of MIT in 1966, and for several years divided his teaching time between MIT and visiting professorships at Yale, Michigan, and the University of California at Berkeley. In 1968 he founded MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank responsible for many radically new approaches to the human-computer interface. From this experience he developed several influential texts, including: The Architecture Machine, Soft Architecture Machine, and Computer Aids to Design and Architecture. In 1980, he served a term as founding chairman of the International Federation of Information Processing Societies' Computers in Everyday Life program in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Two years later, he accepted the French government's invitation to become the first executive director of the Paris-based World Center for Personal Computation and Human Development, an experimental project originally designed to explore computer technology's potential for enhancing primary education in underdeveloped countries. Since then, Mr. Negroponte has traveled extensively throughout the world as a lecturer. He is founder and the senior columnist for Wired magazine, as well as special general partner in a venture capital fund dedicated to new technologies for information and entertainment. His best-selling book, Being Digital (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), has been published in over thirty languages.
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