"One Laptop Per Child: Technology and the Developing World" Center for Advanced Study Special Presentation

• Event Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008
• Time: 4:00 pm (CST)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

Langdon Winner
George A. Miller Endowment Professor, University of Illinois
Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

In January 2005, at the World Economic Conference in Davos, Switzerland, Nicholas Negroponte announced the radical idea of a low-cost laptop for the developing world. From Negroponte's initial announcement to the distribution of the first XO-1 laptops in December 2007, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has raised a host of interesting questions about information technology, computer design, global markets, international relations, and democracy. This forum will be an interdisciplinary dialogue exploring the implications of this far-reaching project.

For more information about Spurlock Museum facilities or for other inquiries, contact Brian Cudiamat at (217) 333-0889.

Museum visitors are reminded that food and drinks are not allowed in the Museum. Backpacks and other large items brought to the Museum will have to be stored; there is limited locker storage space available for these items.