When I started One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the first person I went to was Steve.
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And One Laptop Per Child hasn't figured out yet how to get the laptops to all those kids.
Unlike the One Laptop Per Child Project, the Aakash does not feature any sunlight-readable displays, or any other cutting-edge, MIT-developed technology.
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Movements like One Laptop per Child are, to my mind, an alloyed good in promoting literacy and connection to the larger world.
Marvell has a major partnership with the One Laptop Per Child campaign.
In the latest episode, Intel on Thursday quit the One Laptop Per Child project, which provides low-cost laptops to the world's poorest children.
One Laptop Per Child did not wish to comment on Gates' remarks, though it did say its first machines will be distributed in 2007.
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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The founder of the nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), Negroponte held forth at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston, where he assailed his critics--and played to the crowd.
In the latest episode, Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) on Thursday quit the One Laptop Per Child project, which provides low-cost laptops to the world's poorest children.
Books can be borrowed from the program's library -- the only one in the community -- and there are nearly 300 Internet-accessible laptops that were donated through the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child.
Marvell also announced that it has extended its relationship with the One Laptop per Child Association (OPLC) on a number of new products, including the upcoming OLPC X0 3.0, a low cost, low power tablet designed for education.
The XO Tablet that One Laptop Per Child was shuttling around the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center at CES back in January wasn't quite the final version of the company's first consumer-facing device.
According to the China Post, Quanta "will start production of low-cost machines for the One Laptop per Child project in September after a nine-month delay, " and interestingly, it even cites the recent hardware alterations as a culprit for the latest hangup.
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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".
Following an announcement last week from Neonode, One Laptop Per Child ("OLPC"), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide every child in the world access to new channels of learning, sharing and self-expression, confirmed today that an exciting new and transformative version of the XO device is currently in development.
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The One Laptop Per Child initiative in particular gathered significant publicity and hype for its admirable goals, but people implementing it in many countries appeared not to have thought through the professional development teachers would need or, even more importantly, a redesign of the schooling model itself to leverage the considerable benefits that digital learning can deliver.
In May, Microsoft signed on to the One Child Per Laptop program, agreeing to make Windows available on the effort's pared-down machines.
In May, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) signed on to the One Child Per Laptop program, agreeing to make Windows available on the effort's pared-down machines.
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