Editing Nicholas Negroponte (section)

==Early life==
Negroponte was born to [[Dimitrios Negrepontis|Dimitrios Negropontis]] ({{langx|el|Νεγροπόντης}}), a Greek shipping magnate, competitive alpine skier and member of the [[Negroponte Family|Negroponte]] family. He grew up in New York City's [[Upper East Side]]. 
He has three<!--?--> brothers. His elder one, [[John Negroponte]], is the former [[United States Deputy Secretary of State]]. [[Michel Negroponte]] is an [[Emmy Award]]-winning filmmaker. George Negroponte is an artist and was President of [[the Drawing Center]] from 2002 to 2007.

He attended [[Buckley School (New York City)|Buckley School]] in New York, [[Fay School]] in Massachusetts, [[Institut Le Rosey|Le Rosey]] in Switzerland, and [[Choate Rosemary Hall|The Choate School]] (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in [[Wallingford, Connecticut]], from which he graduated in 1961. Subsequently, he studied at [[MIT School of Architecture and Planning|MIT]] as both an undergraduate and graduate student in [[MIT School of Architecture and Planning|Architecture]] where his research focused on issues of [[computer-aided design]]. 

[[Yona Friedman]] recalls having met Negroponte in 1964 when he was still a student at MIT, where he had discussed with Friedman his idea for an "Architecture Machine".<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Furtado C. Lopes |first=Gonçalo M. |title=Pask's Encounters: From a Childhood Curiosity to the Envisioning of an Evolving Environment |publisher=edition echoraum |year=2009 |isbn=978-3-901941-18-4 |volume=9 |location=Wien |pages=96}}</ref> The architecture machine is considered by Negroponte to be a machine collaborator, who engages in an ongoing architectural design process with a human peer. Both machine and human participants engage in a process of mutual training and growth with each other, in order to harness the interactive potential found in peer-to-peer collaborations during an architectural design process with man and machine instead.<ref name=":0" /> 

He earned a master's degree in architecture from [[MIT School of Architecture and Planning|MIT]] in 1966. Despite his accomplished academic career, Negroponte has spoken publicly about his [[dyslexia]] and his difficulty in reading.<ref>{{cite web|title=Q & A with Nicholas Negroponte|url=http://www.c-span.org/video/?202050-1/qa-nicholas-negroponte|publisher=C-SPAN|access-date=November 30, 2014|date=November 25, 2007}}</ref>