Editing Nicholas Negroponte (section)

{{Short description|Greek American architect (born 1943)}}
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| name               = Nicholas Negroponte
| image              = Nicholas Negroponte USNA 20090415 cropped.jpg
| caption            = Nicholas Negroponte delivering the Forrestal Lecture to the [[US Naval Academy]] in [[Annapolis]], [[Maryland|MD]], on April 15, 2009
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1943|12|1|mf=y}}
| birth_place        = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
| occupation         = Academic and [[computer scientist]]
| children           = Dimitri Negroponte
| website            = 
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}}

'''Nicholas Negroponte''' (born December 1, 1943) is a [[Greek American]] architect. He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]'s [[MIT Media Lab|Media Lab]], and also founded the [[One Laptop per Child]] Association (OLPC). Negroponte is the author of the 1995 book ''[[Being Digital]]'' translated into more than forty languages.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the City|last=Caves|first=R. W.|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2004|isbn=9780415252256|pages=482}}</ref>