1943-
Computer Programmer, Author

Background.

By envisioning the merger of newspapers, television, entertainment, and computers, Nicholas Negroponte became a prophet and visionary of the Digital Age. He grew up in Switzerland, London, and New York in a wealthy shipping family. Negroponte studied at MIT, where as a graduate student he specialized in the then-new field of computer design. He joined the faculty there in 1966 and for several years divided his teaching time between MIT and visiting professorships at Yale, University of Michigan, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Organizations.

In 1968 Negroponte founded the pioneering Architecture Machine Group at MIT, a combination lab and think tank responsible for many radically new approaches to the computer-human inter-face. In 1980 he served as founding chair of the International Federation of Information Processing Societies' Computers in Everyday Life program. In 1982 he accepted the invitation of the French government to become...