Nicholas Negroponte

Griechische Wissenschaftler

Nicholas Negroponte ((Νίκολας Νεγρεπόντε) is the Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding chairman of MIT's Media Laboratory. Professor Negroponte also serves as chairman of Media Lab Europe, the Lab's sister institution in Ireland.

The Media Lab is supported by nearly 170 corporations all around the world and has led to the development of fields, such as multimedia and digital video. Currently, the Lab has focused its research on how electronic information overlaps with the everyday physical world.
Professor Negroponte studied at MIT and has been an MIT faculty member since 1966. He was the founder of MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank responsible for many radically new approaches to the human-computer interface. In 1995, he published The New York Times bestseller Being Digital, which has been translated into over 40 languages.

In the private sector, Professor Negroponte serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc., and as a special general partner in a venture capital firm focusing on technologies for information and entertainment. He was a founder of WiReD magazine and has been an "angel investor" for over 40 start-ups, including three in China. Most recently, Professor Negroponte helped to establish, and serves as chairman of, the 2B1 Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing computer access to children in the most remote and poorest parts of the world.

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When Nicholas Negreponte was asked, "When will machines be intelligent?", he responded, "Better question: When will humans be intelligent?"

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