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Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.
Most of the Sugar software for the One Laptop per Child XO, now developed at Sugar Labs, is written in Python.
* Sugar ( GUI ), GUI implementation for the One Laptop per Child project
He is also currently one of the principals for the One Laptop Per Child initiative to manufacture and distribute The Children's Machine in developing nations.
To enable inclusion of Etoys in the One Laptop Per Child project, a second relicensing was undertaken using the Apache License.
* The Intel Classmate PC ( a competitor to the One Laptop Per Child ) includes a Trusted Platform Module
Another project that is taking advantage of the Helix DNA Client is the One Laptop Per Child project.
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation attempted to use a constructivist approach in its project
Most of Lake Elmo is part of the Stillwater school district (# 834 ), and is home to Lake Elmo Elementary School and Oak-Land Jr. High School, which became one of the first schools to experience Apple's One To One Laptop Program.
* One Laptop per Child's XO-1 contains a Turtle Art activity for playing with turtle graphics
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, is one of the founders of the program One Laptop Per Child, a non-profit organisation aiming to extend Internet access in developing countries.
Nicholas Negroponte ( born December 1, 1943 ) is an American architect best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association ( OLPC ).
When Frank Moss was appointed director of the lab in 2006, Negroponte stepped down as lab chairman to focus more fully on his work with One Laptop Per Child ( OLPC ) although he retains his appointment as professor at MIT.
The project is part of a broader program by One Laptop Per Child, a non-profit organisation started by Negroponte and other Media Lab faculty, to extend Internet access in developing countries.
Category: One Laptop per Child
The keyboards produced for One Laptop Per Child computers also have the Control key in this location.
** XO Laptop subnotebook for developing regions, One Laptop per Child ( OLPC )
Still, building a chip conforming to this specification caused the One Laptop per Child project to claim " the first truly Open Source SD implementation, with no need to obtain an SDI license or sign NDAs to create SD drivers or applications.
He is the elder brother of Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab and of the One Laptop per Child project.
* Ceibal project, the Uruguayan counterpart of the One Laptop Per Child project
The One Laptop per Child project strongly relies on good Internet connectivity, which can most likely be provided in rural areas only with satellite or wireless network Internet access.
In July 2011, Kosrae DOE embraced the One Laptop per Child programme, distributing 720 " XO " computers to children in its public elementary schools, becoming the first State of Micronesia to do so.

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One young is born per year.
One of the densest natural sources for phages and other viruses is sea water, where up to 9 × 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > virions per milliliter have been found in microbial mats at the surface, and up to 70 % of marine bacteria may be infected by phages.
One candlepower was the light produced by a pure spermaceti candle weighing one sixth of a pound and burning at a rate of 120 grains per hour.
" One of Lenin's challenges was distancing materialism, as a viable philosophical outlook, from the " vulgar materialism " expressed in the statement " the brain secretes thought in the same way as the liver secretes bile " ( attributed to 18th c. physician Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, 1757 – 1808 ); " metaphysical materialism " ( matter composed of immutable particles ); and 19th-century " mechanical materialism " ( matter as random molecules interacting per the laws of mechanics ).
One henry is the inductance that will induce a potential difference of one volt if the current through it changes at a rate of one ampere per second.
Formula One cars race at speeds of up to with engines limited in performance to a maximum of 18, 000 revolutions per minute ( RPM ).
One of the most visible traits of this fictional world is that the seasons do not pass once per year.
One gauss is defined as one maxwell per square centimeter ; it equals 1 tesla ( or 100 μT ).
According to the centimeter gram second system of units ( cgs ), the gauss is the unit of magnetic field B and the equivalent of esu / cm ^ 2, while the oersted is the unit of magnetizing field H. One tesla is equal to 10 < sup > 4 </ sup > gauss, and one ampere per meter is equal to 4π × 10 < sup >− 3 </ sup > oersted.
One estimate is that the average hedge fund returned 11. 4 % per year, representing a 6. 7 % return above overall market performance before fees, based on performance data from 8, 400 hedge funds.
One gray of radiation is equal to 1 joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of food material.
One katal of trypsin, for example, is that amount of trypsin which breaks a mole of peptide bonds per second under specified conditions.
One candela per square metre is equal to:
* Mishna Yomit – One Mishnah per day.
One possible explanation for the lack of white dwarfs is that when a red giant expels its outer layers to become a planetary nebula, a slight asymmetry in the loss of material could give the star a ' kick ' of a few kilometres per second, enough to eject it from the cluster.
One fact which complicates discussion of the Patterson film is that Patterson says he normally filmed at 24 frames per second, but in his haste to capture the Bigfoot on film, he did not note the camera's setting.
One pump fire occurs per 1000 failures.
A special " Display One Point On CRT " instruction was used to build up images, which had to be refreshed many times per second.
One horsepower is equivalent to 33, 000 foot-pounds per minute, or the power required to lift 550 pounds by one foot in one second, and is equivalent to about 746 watts.
One – third of the world's current population has been infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and new infections occur at a rate of one per second.
One example was found where the division result returned by the Pentium was off by about 61 parts per million.
One reel requires 11 minutes and 7 seconds to be projected at 24 fps, while a 16 fps projection of the same reel would take 16 minutes and 40 seconds ; per second.

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