Nicholas Negroponte

Details

Nationality

Greek-American

Notes

Founder of the MIT Architecture Machine Group (1967, with Leon Groisser); co-founder with Jerome Wiesner of the MIT Media Lab (1985), housed in I. M. Pei's Wiesner Building; founding investor in Wired. Source correction: The Architecture Machine book was published in 1973, not 1970. The 1970 entry in the sources array should read year 1973.

Connections

• associated with MIT Architecture Machine Group (Arch Mac)
• authored SEEK / Blocksworld
• founded MIT Architecture Machine Group (Arch Mac)
• proposed The architecture machine
• authored The Architecture Machine: Toward a More Human Environment
• authored Soft Architecture Machines
• designed SEEK / Blocksworld
• influenced William J. Mitchell

Referenced by

• Gordon Pask collaborated with

Sources

1. Negroponte, Nicholas. The Architecture Machine: Toward a More Human Environment. The MIT Press, 1970.
2. Wikipedia. Nicholas Negroponte. 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte.