Professor of Media Technology
Director, The Media Laboratory

Professional Experience

• Director, MIT Media Laboratory 1984-present
  
• Professor 1980-present
  
• Associate Professor w/tenure 1976-1980
  
• Associate Professor 1972-1976
  
• Assistant Professor 1968-1972
  
• Founder and Director, Architecture Machine Group 1967-1982
  
• Instructor 1966-1968
  

Related Experience

Science Advisory Board on Technology and the Handicapped
US Department of Health & Human Services
1985-1988

Science Advisory Board
Mead Imaging
1985-1989

Chairman of the Science Advisory Board
Computervision Corporation
1983-1988

Executive Director, World Center for Personal Computation and Human Development
Paris, France
1982-1983

Chairman, Computers in Everyday Life
International Federation of Information Processing Societies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1980-1981

Visiting Professorships

• University of Michigan 1974
  
• University of California 1972
  
• Yale University 1970
  

Publications

Science American

"Products and Services for Computer Networks"
September 1991 vol. 265 No. 3

Wired Magazine

• "HDTV: What's wrong with this picture?"
  Premiere Issue
• "The Bit Police: Will the FCC regulate Licenses to Radiate Bits?"
  May/June 1993
• "Debunking Bandwidth: From Shop Talk to Small Talk"
  July/August 1993
• "Set-Top Box As Electronic Toll Both: Why We Need Open-Architecture TV"
  Sep/Oct 1993
• "Repurposing the Material Girl"
  November 1993
• "Virtual Reality: Oxymoron or Pleonasm?"
  December 1993
• "Aliasing: The Blind Spot of the Computer Industry"
  January 1994
• "Talking to Computers: Time for a New Perspective"
  February 1994
• "Talking With Computers"
  March 1994
• "The Fax of Life: Playing a Bit Part"
  April 1994
• "Bit by Bit on Wall Street: Lucky Strikes Again"
  May 1994
• "Less is More: Interface Agents as Digital Butlers"
  June 1994
• "Learning by Doing" Don't dissect the frog, build it"
  July 1994
• "Prime Time is My Time"
  August 1994

  Over 300 articles in periodicals
  
  "Being Digital", Alfred A. Knopf, January 1995
  

Graduate Advisors

• Gyorgy Kepes, Institute Prof. Emeritus, Architecture
  
• Steve Coons, deceased
  
• Kevin Lynch, deceased
  

Professional Summary

Negroponte studied at MIT, where as a graduate student he specialized in the then-new field of computer-aided design. He joined the Institute's faculty in 1966, and for several years divided his time between MIT and visiting professorships at Yale, Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley. In 1968 he founded MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank responsible for many radically new approaches to the human-computer interface. Out of this experience came several influential texts by Negroponte, including: The Architecture Machine, Soft Architecture Machine and Computer Aids to Design and Architecture.

In 1980, he served a term as founding chairman of the International Federation of Information Processing Societies Computers in Everyday Life program in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Two years later, Negroponte accepted the French government's invitation to become the first executive director of the Paris-based World Center for Personal Computation and Human Development, an experimental project originally designed to explore computer technology's potential for enhancing primary education in underdeveloped countries. Since then, Negroponte has traveled extensively throughout the world as a lecturer. He has delivered hundreds of presentations, including the prestigious Murata "People Talk" address in Kyoto in 1990. In addition, he consults to both government and industry, serves as an active member on several corporate boards of directors in technologies for information and publishing. Negroponte is senior columnist for Wired magazine and the author of the new book BEING DIGITAL, published by Alfred A. Knopf.