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Nicholas Negroponte
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1 Dec 1943
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Being Digital
- Guia Completo Do Linux e Software Livre
- Urban 2
- A Vida Digital (Em Portuguese do Brasil)
- The $100 laptop
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1943-12-01 ) December 1, 1943 (age 82) , New York City , New York
- Occupations
- Academic and computer scientist
- Children
- Dimitri Negroponte
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nicholas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Father
- Dimitrios Negrepontis
- Sibling
- John Negroponte
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- computer science
- Image
- Nicholas Negroponte USNA 20090415 cropped.jpg
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- Commons category
- Nicholas Negroponte
- date of birth
- 1943-12-01
- has works in the collection
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- affiliation string
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- affiliation
- The MIT Press
- medical condition
- dyslexia
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
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 book Being Digital translated into more than forty languages.
Early life
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