Nicholas Negroponte
Chapter 25.  Being Digital

  Nicholas Negroponte is co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, as well as Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at MIT.   Negroponte studied at MIT, where as a graduate student he specialized in the then-new field of computer aided design. He joined the Institute's faculty in 1966, and for several years thereafter divided his teaching time between MIT and visiting professorships at Yale, Michigan, and the University of California at Berkeley.  His 1995 best-seller, Being Digital, has been translated into more than 40 languages.  Negroponte is also co-founder and back-page columnist for Wired magazine.

Links:

Negroponte's bio on the MIT Media Lab site and another, longer one at Open Book Systems.

Collection of his WiReD Columns.

Selections from Being Digital.

Review of Being Digital, part of site on "Readings in Technology and Education," by Elizabeth Murphy of Newfoundland, Canada (1996).

Transcript of an interview with Negroponte by John Papageorge on Silicon Valley Radio (audio version seems to be inoperative).

Negroponte's listing with Leigh Bureau.com, an agency for speakers.

Address to The Masters Forum, October 19, 1995 (The Masters Forum is an executive development program of the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.).

Interview in the AARP Bulletin, April 1998 (AARP is the American Association of Retired Persons).

Interview -- part of Intel's interactive history of the microprocessor (Other interviews with "high tech visionaries" on this site are also worth a look.).

Review of Being Digital by Samuel Florman (author of Chapter 6) in The New York Times, February 5, 1995.

Profile and interviews in Italian on MediaMente.

Dialogue with Negroponte in Spanish on Su Ordenador (1998).

Short review of Being Digital in Salon magazine, including a 10 minute audio clip of an excerpt read by Penn Jillette (mp3 and RealAudio).

Interview in German from Spiegel Online, March 17, 1999.



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