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The $100 laptop: A well intentioned waste of time?
News While the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative from the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is laudable, it is unlikely to succeed without suitable support mechanisms to help the developing world exploit the technology.
[November 22, 2005, 10:55]
Why India said no to the $100 laptop
Leader As with MIT Media Lab Europe, which set up shop in Dublin in 2000 only to close its shutters in 2005, MIT Media Lab Asia (Mumbai, 2001-5) attracted government funding, criticism and then the bum's rush.
[July 27, 2006, 17:05]
Motorola and MIT to create thinking chips
News MIT's Media Lab is hoping to provide that vision. Technology like that could eventually produce "disposable electronics," said MIT professor Joe Jacobson, leader of the project. Right now, information technology is designed with the principle that...
[March 16, 1999, 13:12]
Jane Wakefield: Uncovering the heart of technology
News BT has also been drawn by the MIT magnet and has invested a huge sum in sponsoring the Disruptive Technology Lab at MIT's famous Media Lab. Making tech invisible finds its zenith with the work being done at MIT by Professor Hiroshi Ishii, head of...
[June 27, 2001, 16:44]
Negroponte brings wireless meshing to Greek island
News Negroponte's MIT Media Lab then went on to look at ways of bringing broadband web access to Patmos and eventually settled on wireless-mesh networking technology as the best solution. The wireless Patmos network — due to launch this summer — has...
[July 25, 2008, 11:06]
$100 PC project will 'invigorate Linux desktop push'
News Originally a research project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, the project aims to put a cheap lap top in the hands of students around the world particularly those in developing countries.
[January 31, 2006, 9:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Easter is notoriously quiet on the tech news front, so what better time for MIT's Media Lab to coyly unveil Clocky - an alarm clock that runs away from you as it spouts its unwelcome news of morning. Tuesday 29/3/2005
[April 1, 2005, 19:35]
The Restaurant Game
Downloads This game is a research project at the MIT Media Lab that will algorithmically combine the gameplay experiences of thousands of players to create a new game. The Restaurant Game is a restaurant simulation where you play as a customer or waitress.
[May 24, 2007, 8:00]
In pictures: One Laptop Per Child review
Reviews When Nicholas Negroponte (above, right) of the MIT Media Lab showed off a prototype OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) at NetEvents in Hong Kong, ZDNet UK's Rupert Goodwins was there with his camera. Nicholas Negroponte: founder of MIT Media Labs, Wired...
[December 6, 2006, 9:37]
New Technology Focus: Computers that know you're upset!
News The Affective Computing Department at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass.is trying to use computers to detect people's emotions. If it does something that drives you nuts it doesn't always have to do that," said Rosalind Picard, an associate...
[July 28, 1998, 6:33]
MIT takes RFID to next stage
News Ashton and his colleagues at the Auto-ID Center helped organise the event, which is sponsored by the MIT Media Lab and another university department, Ashton said. The Auto-ID Center, the radio frequency identification (RFID) research group that MIT...
[October 24, 2003, 10:00]
IT Forum: Europe can be No. 1 in e-commerce
News For e-Europe to succeed some specific problems need to be overcome and Professor Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the Media Lab at MIT, urged European governments to do something about phone pricing. Media Lab graduates can get funding in 24 hours...
[September 13, 1999, 11:51]
$100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux'
News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and founder of MIT's media lab. Currently on leave from MIT to push the OLPC...
[June 2, 2006, 17:10]
$100 laptop scheme insists on open source
News Seymour Papert, a professor emeritus at MIT and one of the project's founders, said the scheme had refused Jobs' offer on the grounds that However, Bill Gates met with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT's
[November 15, 2005, 16:00]
Researchers vow to smash 'barriers to innovation'
News For innovation to succeed, it is no longer good enough to have a technically good idea; it has to fit into the business context, said Andy Lippman, a senior researcher at MIT's media lab. Technical innovation is being hindered by a lack of...
[June 16, 2004, 16:35]
Startup promises 'portable portals'
News He first teamed up with Shamir while the two were working at MIT's Media Lab. McGeady's day job is serving as vice president and general manager of Intel Internet Technology Lab. Internet World isn't all e-commerce innovators and broadband providers.
[October 8, 1999, 9:07]
News Schmooze: Microsoft wins case, goes back to being evil
News In the mean time, BT was showing journos just how high-tech and cutting-edge it is with a tour around MIT's Media Lab. But, like the Soviet tour guides of old, they seem to have hidden the unsavoury elements out of sight -- in this case, all the...
[June 29, 2001, 16:49]
Interactive wallpaper turns on the lights
News The Living Walls Project, led by Leah Buechley at MIT's Media Lab, uses magnetic and conductive paints to create circuitry embedded in the wallpaper's designs. According to a report in New Scientist, the team from MIT created the wallpaper by...
[November 4, 2009, 13:58]
Wearable technology could be next consumer fad
News Wearable computing has long been regarded as at the wackier end of the technology visionary scale, but for research scientist Steven Schwartz working at the Media Lab at MIT the idea of wearable computers overtaking mobile phones is a no-brainer.
[June 18, 2001, 8:54]
The $100 laptop - don't get carried away
Leader Then again, MIT's Media Lab has never lacked vision. So when Nicholas Negroponte and his team from MIT says that he can do just this with a $100 laptop designed for every child, it takes an icy soul to be contrarian.
[November 17, 2005, 13:20]
