"The XO-1 was really designed as if we were Apple, " Nicholas Negroponte says in the interview.
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Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association, and formerly co-founder and director of the MIT Media Lab.
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When Nicholas Negroponte, a tech guru at the celebrated Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launched the initiative in 2005, the vision was grandiose, but the implementation seemed beguilingly simple.
The members of the Special Committee to oversee the editorial integrity of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires are Thomas Bray, Louis Boccardi, Jack Fuller, Nicholas Negroponte and Susan Phillips.
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The chip giant said it couldn't abide by OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte's demand that it discontinue making a similar laptop and argues that there's plenty of room in the marketplace for different brands.
The plan to put the distinctive green and white XO laptops on sale in 27 European nations was revealed by OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte in a speech to the World of Health IT Conference in Copenhagen.
In a statement announcing the deal, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte said the organisation was starting to get "good traction" from countries keen to sign up and buy the distinctive green and white XO laptops in large numbers.
's Nicholas Negroponte describes the difference between physical products and information products in the digital age as the difference between moving atoms around (physical products such as cars and computers) and moving bits around (electronic products such as financial analyses and news broadcasts).
Primping aside, it will be interesting to see whether consumers agree with Siu and Intel chairman Craig Barrett that Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC is little more than a gadgety PDA, or whether free, robust open-source software is more appealing to the budget-conscious geek.
The One Laptop Per Child non-profit association, first announced by Nicholas Negroponte , founder and chairman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media lab at the World Economic Forum last January, claims the machine will "be able to do almost everything except store huge amounts of data".
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