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BIOGRAPHY

Nicholas Negroponte was born in 1944 (+/- 1 year). As a child he was dyslex­ic. So instead of reading, he spent hours poring over train schedules, delighting in making perfect connections between obscure towns in Europe. After tak­ing his college boards in Switzerland at age 15, receiving a perfect score of 800 in his math achievements, he attended a U.S. prep school. An early ac­ceptance from M.I.T. landed him in Cambridge in 1961. He completed a five-year professional de­gree in four and finished a second the following year, in 1966. Negroponte pur­sued his CAD interest at the IBM Cam­bridge Scientific Center, where his wife worked. He worked there for two years and then returned to M.I.T. where he started his CAD project, which was presented in 1970 at the Jewish Museum in NY. In 1976 his group from M.I.T. devised the notion of a Spatial Data Management System, or SDMS, a semi­nal step in the development of multi­media. Also during the 1970s, Negroponte's team forged the link between computer graphics and television and broke new ground in interactive movies and tele­conferencing. In 1985 he founded the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been directing it since then. The Me­dia Lab's newest enterprise, called Things That Think, aims to invent ways for making everything from cuff links to coats more accommodating. That are the facts of 1995.