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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was a non-profit initiative that operated from 2005 to 2014 with the goal of transforming education for children around the world by creating and distributing educational devices for the developing world, and by creating software and content for those devices.
OLPC XO-1 laptop in e-book mode. The XO-1 is designed to be low-cost, small, durable, and efficient. It is shipped with a slimmed-down version of Fedora Linux and a custom GUI named Sugar that is intended to help young children collaborate.
Mary Lou Jepsen is a technical executive and inventor in the fields of display, imaging, and computer hardware. She was the co-founder and first chief technology officer of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), and later founded Pixel Qi in Taipei, Taiwan, focused on the design and manufacture of displays.
Our man Nicholas Negroponte was certainly excited about pushing the state of the art forward with future versions of the OLPC when we hosted him on The Engadget Show earlier this month, and now he ...
XO-3 was a design for a tablet/e-book reader intended to be developed under the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative, but the project was cancelled in November 2012, [1] replaced by the XO tablet. History
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC).
Charles Kane is a business executive who currently serves as president and chief operations officer of the One Laptop Per Child Association. Kane was promoted to president of OLPC on May 2, 2008. [1] [2] Previously, Kane was the chief financial officer of RSA Security, a security firm acquired by EMC.
Hopkins, supported by John Gilmore, adapted SimCity for the OLPC XO-1 laptop. [5] The current version includes pie menus and is explained in depth in a video [6] released by Hopkins. Since its primary objective is education, the OLPC project is looking not just for games, but for tools that enable kids to program their own games. [7]