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Nicholas Negroponte, Founder, One Laptop Per Child; receives the
Leader in Innovation Award from Associate Dean Gary Hansen, TMP UCSB at Kellogg Elementary School, CA. Principal Nancy Knight and Teacher DJ Perry and the students were wonderful hosts.
www.tmp.ucsb.edu
Video courtesy of Robert Lovgren

Nicholas Negroponte, Founder, One Laptop Per Child; receives the
Leader in Innovation Award from Associate Dean Gary Hansen, TMP UCSB at Kellogg Elementary School, CA. Principal Nancy Knight and Teacher DJ Perry and the students were wonderful hosts.
www.tmp.ucsb.edu
Video courtesy of Robert Lovgren

Mr. Negroponte remains at the forefront of both the business and academic worlds and offers an invaluable chance to learn about business and social entrepreneurship in the digital age.

This presentation was brought to you by the Harvard College Business Club.

Nicholas Negroponte shows the Harvard students the worlds first Windows XP based laptop. A deal with Microsoft is imminently going to be announced. Microsoft dedicated 25 engineers during the past year on developing a version of Windows XP to run smoothly on the XO laptop. “OLPC is an open-source Linux project, doing anything with Microsoft has got to be managed with a lot of delicacy” he says. “What we will do is not to take money from Microsoft, we are staying pure with our funding. What we are doing is to provide a dual-boot system like you are able to boot Windows or Linux on a Macintosh X86 based machine. By doing a dual-boot, you can then infiltrate other places, and by that I mean that people who buy these laptops for kids are adults and by definition they are people who use Windows and Office and that’s their view of the world. So if you give them a Windows machine that they can buy, and that the kids use Linux, that’s one way of getting further.”

“Last week, the city of Florence, Italy just decided to give every child in Florence an XO laptop and pay for an equal amount of laptops to be given to children in developping nations.”

“Windows XP is suprisingly well done and optimized. I’m on public record being pretty nasty about Microsoft and yet, when I saw that, they clearly put an enormous amount of effort and really did a very, very good job. That doesn’t mean we are switching to Microsoft.”

“We are working on a version now that will cost a hundred dollars or less and use about 85% [perhaps he said "less"] power then the XO-1 does. With the XO-1, if we close our eyes and did nothing, the price would drop 25-30% per year. There are 900 parts in the XO-1. For the next model, we can reduce the number of components to 50, that will also reduce the cost by another 40%. We have got to have discipline and not add features.”

SkyNews Technofile podcast (Episode 50) compares the approaches of OLPC, Aleutia, and NComputing. Interviews with Negroponte, Rosenberg, and Shah.

Download this video in the Mp4 format (19mb)

Stream the Interview in an ASX playlist

Posted in the Guardian Tech Weekly podcast at http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/

Posted by http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=11823

Nicholas Negroponte gave a 50 minute keynote speech at CES 2008:

You can watch a flash based version at http://cesweb.org/about_ces/multimedia.asp

And download the Mp4 file (250mb)

Currently this video file has the audio out of synch it seems, and most of the video track seems to be showing only the slideshow instead of showing Nicholas Negroponte on stage. Perhaps CEA will release a better video file of this keynote soon.