Biographical sketch of author
Nicholas Negroponte
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: nicholas@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Negroponte is cofounder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, where he is also the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology. The Media Lab is currently supported by nearly 170 corporations worldwide and has led in the development of now-familiar areas such as digital video and multimedia. It now focuses largely on how bits meet atoms: how electronic information overlaps with the everyday physical world. A graduate of MIT, Mr. Negroponte was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design and has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1966. He is also author of the best-seller, Being Digital (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), which has been translated into more than 40 languages. In the private sector, Mr. Negroponte serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc., and as general partner in a venture capital firm specializing in digital technologies for information and entertainment. He has also provided start-up funds for more than 20 companies, including Wired magazine.
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