Editing Nicholas Negroponte (section)

==Later career==
In 2000, Negroponte stepped down as director of the [[MIT Media Lab|Media Lab]] as [[Walter Bender]] took over as executive director. However, Negroponte retained the role of laboratory chairman. When [[Frank Moss (technologist)|Frank Moss]] was appointed director of the lab in 2006, Negroponte stepped down as lab chairman to focus more fully on his work with [[The Children's Machine|One Laptop Per Child]] (OLPC) although he retains his appointment as professor at MIT (Professor Post-Tenure of Media Arts and Sciences).<ref>''[https://www.media.mit.edu/people/nicholas/overview/ Person Overview ‹ Nicholas Negroponte – MIT Media Lab]'', at media.mit.edu (mit.edu)</ref>

[[Image:Kaye negroponte.jpg|thumb|right|[[Mary Lou Jepsen]], [[Alan Kay]] and Nicholas Negroponte unveil the [[$100 laptop]] in November 2005.]]
In November 2005, at the [[World Summit on the Information Society]] held in [[Tunis]], Negroponte unveiled the concept of a $100 laptop computer, [[The Children's Machine]], designed for students in the developing world.<ref>{{Cite news | last = Kirkpatrick| first= David| date=November 28, 2005| access-date = 12 December 2010 | work=Fortune| url= https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/11/28/8361971/index.htm | title=I'd Like to Teach the World to Type}}</ref> The price has increased to US$180, however. The project was a part of a broader program by One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit organization started by Negroponte and other [[MIT Media Lab|Media Lab]] faculty to extend Internet access in developing countries.

Negroponte is an [[angel investor]] and has invested in over 30 startup companies over the last 30 years, including [[Zagats]], [[Wired magazine|Wired]], [[Ambient Devices]], [[Skype]] and [[Velti]]. He has sat on several boards, including [[Motorola]] and [[Velti]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Velti Announces Date of AIM Delisting|url=http://investors.velti.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=558800 |date=March 18, 2011 |website=Velti - Investor Overview |access-date=August 27, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305193039/http://investors.velti.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=558800|archive-date=March 5, 2012}}</ref> He is also on the advisory board of [[TTI/Vanguard]]. 

In August 2007, he was appointed to a five-member special committee with the objective of assuring the continued journalistic and editorial integrity and independence of the [[Wall Street Journal]] and other [[Dow Jones & Company]] publications and services. The committee was formed as part of the merger of Dow Jones with [[News Corporation (1980–2013)|News Corporation]].<ref>''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', August 1, 2007. "[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118598565803884843 Text of Dow Jones Editorial Agreement]". Retrieved October 21, 2007.</ref> Negroponte's fellow founding committee members are [[Louis Boccardi]], [[Thomas Bray (writer)|Thomas Bray]], [[Jack Fuller (publisher)|Jack Fuller]], and the late former Congresswoman [[Jennifer Dunn (politician)|Jennifer Dunn]].

===Epstein funding comments===
In response to the controversy of the MIT Media Lab accepting funding from [[Jeffrey Epstein]] five years after Epstein's conviction for sex trafficking minors, Negroponte told MIT staff, "If you wind back the clock, I would still say, 'Take it.'"<ref>[[MIT Technology Review]], September 4, 2019. "MIT Media Lab founder: Taking Jeffrey Epstein's money was justified". [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614264/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joi-ito-nicholas-negroponte-funding-sex-abuse/ Online edition]. Retrieved September 7, 2019.</ref>

Negroponte said that in the fund-raising world these types of occurrences were not out of the ordinary, and they should not be reason enough to cut off business relationships.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614264/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joi-ito-nicholas-negroponte-funding-sex-abuse/|title=MIT Media Lab founder: Taking Jeffrey Epstein's money was justified|last=Chen|first=Angela|website=MIT Technology Review|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-15}}</ref>