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OLPC debuts at Boston meeting

Jun 8, 2006 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — 2 views

At an event honoring top technology innovations from Massachusetts companies in Boston June 7, Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of the MIT Media Lab and chairman of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, was inducted into the MITX (Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange) Innovation Hall of Fame.

Not surprisingly, Negroponte, a tireless advocate of the OLPC, didn't miss the opportunity to show off the first working model of the “$100 laptop.”

The OLPC project was announced last fall, with laptop manufacturer Quanta Computer of Taiwan stepping forward to offer its manufacturing services shortly afterward.

Here, courtesy of our sister site eWEEK.com, is a slide show of the OLPC's Boston debut:


$100 Laptop Arrives

$100 Laptop Design

Wireless Mesh Capabilities

Running Slimmed Down Fedora

One Laptop Per Child

$100 Laptop In a Crowd

Nicholas Negroponte

Read the complete eWEEK.com story here:

Working Model of $100 Laptop Steals MITX Spotlight


 
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