Editing Nicholas Negroponte (section)

===MIT===
Negroponte later joined the faculty of [[MIT School of Architecture and Planning|MIT]] in 1966. For several years thereafter he divided his teaching time between [[MIT School of Architecture and Planning|MIT]] and several visiting professorships at [[Yale]], [[University of Michigan|Michigan]] and the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. He also during 1966, had a role with [[IBM]] which could potentially provide funding for research to find means of using computers to help [[Architect|architects]], planners and [[Designer|designers]].<ref name=":2" /> He attended Avery Johnson's lab and seminars at the [[MIT Sloan School of Management|MIT Sloan school]]. He eventually met Warren Brodey, who Negroponte described as being “one of the earliest and most important influences”.<ref name=":2" /> According to [[Evgeny Morozov]], it was through Brodey that the ideas of "soft architectures" and "intelligent environments" became established in Negroponte's thinking.<ref name=":2" />

In 1967, Negroponte founded [[MIT School of Architecture and Planning|MIT]]'s Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank which studied new approaches to [[human–computer interaction]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book| publisher = [[MIT Press]]| isbn = 0-262-64010-4| last = Negroponte| first = Nicholas| title = The Architecture Machine: Towards a More Human Environment| location = Cambridge, Massachusetts| year = 1970| url = https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5049/The-Architecture-MachineToward-a-More-Human}}</ref> The Architecture Machine Group was primarily concerned in addressing the potential of computers in architecture. Negroponte argued during this period that [[Computer-aided design|computer aided design]] was only making activities such as architecture "faster", and that the underlying spirit of the architectural machine group would be to explore the various possibilities for generating collaborating machines for architectural design.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> The group took funding from [[DARPA]] and other parts of [[The Pentagon]] to explore early research in [[human-computer interaction]] and [[virtual reality]].<ref name=":2">{{cite news |last=Morozov |first=Evgeny |date=28 June 2024 |title=The AI we could have had |url=https://www.ft.com/content/c63dae2b-b0d5-4b27-a718-2cce165097b9 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240629061324/https://www.ft.com/content/c63dae2b-b0d5-4b27-a718-2cce165097b9 |archive-date=29 June 2024 |work=Financial Times |location=London}}</ref> The contents of the research from the lab were composed into two books: ''The Architecture Machine: Towards a More Human Environment'' (1973), and ''Soft Architecture Machines'' (1976).<ref name=":1" /> Participants in the group included the [[Cybernetics|cybernetician]] [[Gordon Pask]], who visited Negroponte as a consultant and whose article "Aspects of Machine Intelligence" became the introduction to the section on machine intelligence in ''Soft Architecture Machines''.<ref>{{harvard citation|Furtado C. Lopes|2009|p=100}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Negroponte |first1=Nicholas |title=Soft Architecture Machines |last2=Pask |first2=Gordon |publisher=MIT Press |year=1976 |isbn=978-0-262-36783-7 |editor-first= |location=USA |pages=6–51 |chapter=Aspects of Machine Intelligence |doi=10.7551/mitpress/6317.003.0003}}</ref>

In 1985, Negroponte created the [[MIT Media Lab]] with [[Jerome B. Wiesner]].<ref>{{Cite news| pages = 13| last = Schrage| first = Michael| title = An MIT Lab Tinkers With the Future of Personal Computers| newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]| date = October 7, 1985}}</ref> As director, he developed the lab into a laboratory for new media and a high-tech playground for investigating the human–computer interface. Negroponte also became a proponent of [[intelligent agent]]s and personalized [[Online newspaper|electronic newspapers]],<ref>{{Cite journal| issn =0036-8733| volume = 265| issue = 3| pages = 76–83| last = Negroponte| first = Nicholas| title = Products and Services for Computer Networks| journal = [[Scientific American]]| year = 1991| doi = 10.1038/scientificamerican0991-106| bibcode = 1991SciAm.265c.106N}}</ref> for which he popularized the term the [[Daily Me]].