After Dinner Speakers: Nicholas Negroponte, Lee Westwood, Grace Jones

Nicholas Negroponte is a founder and the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's uniquely innovative Media Laboratory. An interdisciplinary, multi million dollar research centre of unparalleled intellectual and technological resources, is focused exclusively on study and experimentation with future forms of human communication, from entertainment to education. Negroponte is also co-founder and back-page columnist for Wired magazine. Negroponte studied at MIT, where as a graduate student he specialised in the then-new field of computer aided design. He joined the Institute's faculty in 1966, and for several years thereafter divided his teaching time between MIT and visiting professorships at Yale, Michigan, and the University of California at Berkeley. In 1968 he also founded MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group. An expert speaker on all technological matters.