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Nicholas Negroponte

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Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect. [1]

60 relations: Alan Kay, Ambient Devices, Angel investor, Artist, Being Digital, Buckley School (New York City), Cass Sunstein, Choate Rosemary Hall, Computer-aided design, Daily Me, David Houle (futurist), Deborah Porter, Dow Jones & Company, Drawing Center, Dyslexia, Emmy Award, Fay School, Filmmaking, Frank Moss (technologist), George Gilder, Greek Americans, Human–computer interaction, Institut Le Rosey, Intelligent agent, Internet, Jennifer Dunn (politician), Jerome Wiesner, John Negroponte, Louis Boccardi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Media Lab, MIT Press, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Motorola, Negroponte switch, New York (state), New York City, News Corporation, OLPC XO, One Laptop per Child, Online newspaper, Scientific American, Skype, Technological utopianism, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, TTI/Vanguard, Tunis, United States Deputy Secretary of State, United States Naval Academy, ..., University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Upper East Side, Velti, Wallingford, Connecticut, Walter Bender, Wired (magazine), World Summit on the Information Society, Yale University, Zagat. Expand index (10 more) »

Alan Kay

Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940 published by the Association for Computing Machinery 2012) is an American computer scientist.

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Ambient Devices

Ambient Devices, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 2001 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA that designs and markets various ambient devices for display of information ranging from weather to traffic reports to stock quotes.

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Angel investor

An angel investor (also known as a business angel, informal investor, angel funder, private investor, or seed investor) is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.

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Artist

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.

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Being Digital

Being Digital is a non-fiction book about digital technologies and their possible future by technology author Nicholas Negroponte.

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Buckley School (New York City)

Buckley School is an independent, K-9 day school for boys located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.

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Cass Sunstein

Cass Robert Sunstein FBA (born September 21, 1954) is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, who was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012.

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Choate Rosemary Hall

Choate Rosemary Hall (often known as Choate) is a private, college-preparatory, coeducational, boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut.

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Computer-aided design

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer systems to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.

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Daily Me

The Daily Me is a term popularized by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte to describe a virtual daily newspaper customized for an individual's tastes.

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David Houle (futurist)

David Houle (born 1948) is a futurist, keynote speaker, and author of The Shift Age.

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Deborah Porter

Deborah Z Porter (born 1958) is non-profit director best known for founding the Boston Book Festival, which she has run since 2009.

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Dow Jones & Company

Dow Jones & Company is an American publishing and financial information firm that has been owned by News Corp. since 2007.

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Drawing Center

The Drawing Center is a Manhattan, New York, museum and a nonprofit exhibition space that focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary.

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Dyslexia

Dyslexia, also known as reading disorder, is characterized by trouble with reading despite normal intelligence.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Fay School

Fay School is an independent, coeducational day and boarding school, located on a campus some from Boston in Southborough, Massachusetts, and is the oldest junior boarding school in the United States.

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking (or, in an academic context, film production) is the process of making a film, generally in the sense of films intended for extensive theatrical exhibition.

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Frank Moss (technologist)

Frank Moss is a researcher, technology and biotechnology entrepreneur, academician and author.

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George Gilder

George Franklin Gilder (born November 29, 1939) is an American investor, writer, economist, techno-utopian advocate, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute.

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Greek Americans

Greek Americans (Ελληνοαμερικανοί, Ellinoamerikanoi) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry.

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Human–computer interaction

Human–computer interaction (HCI) researches the design and use of computer technology, focused on the interfaces between people (users) and computers.

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Institut Le Rosey

Institut Le Rosey, commonly referred to as Le Rosey or simply Rosey, is a boarding school in Rolle, Switzerland.

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Intelligent agent

In artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent (IA) is an autonomous entity which observes through sensors and acts upon an environment using actuators (i.e. it is an agent) and directs its activity towards achieving goals (i.e. it is "rational", as defined in economics).

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Jennifer Dunn (politician)

Jennifer Jill Dunn (née Blackburn; July 29, 1941 – September 5, 2007) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives 1993–2005, representing.

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Jerome Wiesner

Jerome Bert Wiesner (May 30, 1915 – October 21, 1994) was a professor of electrical engineering, chosen by President John F. Kennedy as chairman of his Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).

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John Negroponte

John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939) is an American diplomat.

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Louis Boccardi

Louis D. Boccardi was President and Chief Executive Officer of The Associated Press (AP), the world’s largest news organization, from 1985 until his retirement in 2003.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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MIT Media Lab

The MIT Media Lab is an antidisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the School of Architecture.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States).

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MIT School of Architecture and Planning

The MIT School of Architecture and Planning is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.

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Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company founded on September 25, 1928, based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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Negroponte switch

In the 1980s, Professor Nicholas Negroponte of the Media Lab at MIT originated the idea that came to be known as the "Negroponte Switch".

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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News Corporation

The original News Corporation or News Corp. was an American multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City.

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OLPC XO

The OLPC XO, previously known as the $100 Laptop, Children's Machine, and 2B1, is an inexpensive laptop computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world, to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves" (constructionist learning).

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One Laptop per Child

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit initiative established with the goal of transforming education for children around the world; this goal was to be achieved by creating and distributing educational devices for the developing world, and by creating software and content for those devices.

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Online newspaper

An online newspaper is the online version of a newspaper, either as a stand-alone publication or as the online version of a printed periodical.

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Scientific American

Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine.

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Skype

Skype is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones.

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Technological utopianism

Technological utopianism (often called techno-utopian-ism or technoutopianism) is any ideology based on the premise that advances in science and technology could and should bring about a utopia, or at least help to fulfill one or another utopian ideal.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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TTI/Vanguard

TTI/Vanguard is an advanced technology research membership for senior-level executives.

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Tunis

Tunis (تونس) is the capital and the largest city of Tunisia.

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United States Deputy Secretary of State

The Deputy Secretary of State of the United States is the principal deputy to the Secretary of State.

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United States Naval Academy

The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Upper East Side

The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park/Fifth Avenue, 59th Street, the East River, and 96th Street.

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Velti

Velti is a mobile marketing company offering its solutions to major mobile operators and brands.

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Wallingford, Connecticut

Wallingford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.

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Walter Bender

Walter Bender is technologist and researcher who works in the field of electronic publishing, media and technology for learning.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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World Summit on the Information Society

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a two-phase United Nations-sponsored summit on information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Zagat

The Zagat Survey or was established by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979 as a way to collect and correlate the ratings of restaurants by diners; for their first guide, covering New York City, the Zagats surveyed their friends.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte

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