Nicholas Negroponte
2003 Ranking: #24
Nicholas Negroponte (b.1950) is the Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the leading lights of the digital revolution he could justifiably lay claim to the invention of multi-media through his work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory
Negroponte's digital credentials are impressive. A graduate of MIT where he specialized in Computer Aided Design, he founded MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group in 1968 and followed up with the MIT Media Lab. The MIT Media Lab's tech research has paved the way for many of the technologies that define the digital revolution.
Until recently Negroponte was a regular contributor to Wired magazine, which
incidentally and lucratively he helped fund, and has expounded his views on
the digital world in his best selling book Being Digital (1995).
