“Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of both the MIT Media Lab and
the non-profit One Laptop Per Child, delivered the last keynote
speech of the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences
annual meeting tonight.“The talk focused on the groundbreaking work of the OLPC, which
has managed to deliver thousands of $187 laptops to children in the
developing world. Negroponte ran through a list of the
organization’s accomplishments, noting that they had half a million
machines in their pipeline and that production had reached 110,000
units per month…”
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