Nicholas Negroponte

Person · Open Library

Born

1 Dec 1943

Works

13

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

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Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Negroponte was born to Dimitri John Negroponte, a Greek shipping magnate, and grew up in New York City's Upper East Side. He is the younger brother of John Negroponte, former United States Deputy Secretary of State. <a href="https://www.last.fm/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

   · 1953 · cited 29,951x

2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,854x

3. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

   · 2011 · cited 19,395x

4. Sources of Conflict between Work and Family Roles

   · 1985 · cited 18,709x

5. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,770x

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Quotes

• “Scale will get you strategy.”
• “Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.”
• “You can see the future best through peripheral vision.”
• “Think about it. Turning pages. How ridiculous that is. It's just unbelievably dumb. … [Apple's] building peripherals for iTunes … We can't turn these kids into couch potatoes.”
• “MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.”
• “The Internet for us was like air. It was there all the time — you wouldn't notice it existed unless it was missing.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1943-12-01 ) December 1, 1943 (age 82) , New York City , New York

Occupations

Academic and computer scientist

Children

Dimitri Negroponte

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