The CARNEGIE COUNCIL Presents Nicholas Negroponte, Founding Chairman of MIT's Media Laboratory 'The $100 Laptop: The Next Two Billion People to Go Dig

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005, 6:00 - 7:15 PM Program: The 24th Morgenthau Memorial Lecture Location: The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues Tickets: $10.00. For tickets please contact the Kaye Playhouse Box Office 212-772-4448 or visit their web site at http://kayeplayhouse.hunter.cuny.edu/ About Nicholas Negroponte: Nicholas Negroponte is founding chairman of the MIT Media Lab. He is also a founder of WiReD magazine and has been an "angel investor" for over 40 start-ups, including three in China. Professor Negroponte helped to establish, and serves as chairman of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization created by faculty members from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. About the Morgenthau Memorial Lecture: This lecture honors the memory of the late Professor Hans J. Morgenthau, his lifetime commitment to the ethical challenges of foreign policy and his immeasurable contributions to the Carnegie Council. This year's theme is "A Fairer Globalization," featuring ideas that promote opportunity and freedom for all. For information on this event and more, go to http://www.CarnegieCouncil.org

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