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Friday, May 26, 2006
MIT's $100 laptop sputters along - Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
On a desk in a messy office on the eighth floor of a building opposite the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sits a circuit board that might just transform education for millions of children around the world. The board is the first prototype hardware for the ambitious One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Led by Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC and a cofounder of the MIT Media Laboratory, the project seeks to develop a $100 laptop computer for use by kids in their studies. The machine will be offered in bulk to governments and other organizations. The prototype's arrival in the U.S. from Taiwan in early May represents a milestone. However, the project is already running late and there remain several obstacles before computers start getting into kids' hands.
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