This talk will provide a current overview and status of the $100
laptop project.
Its context, history, motivations, goals and challenges will provide
a framework for better understanding the various management and
engineering decisions up to the talk's point in time along with a
general high level description of the laptop's technology.
Although to its principals the $100 laptop is mainly an educational
project, deploying millions of those will also have far reaching
implications for the computing and communications industries.
An attempt will be made to identify and discuss them.
This talk assumes an audience with general background - no special skills required.
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MIT Media Lab
Michail Bletsas, a research scientist and director of computing at the
MIT Media Laboratory, designed and deployed most of the Internet
network infrastructure systems at the Lab. Currently, he is
experimenting with wireless networks that are implemented using
off-the-shelf, low-cost components to provide broadband Internet
access to underserved areas. Before joining the Media Lab, he was a
systems engineer at Aware, Inc., where he designed and wrote
high-performance software libraries for Intel's distributed-memory
parallel supercomputers, and was involved in the development of one of
the first ADSL Internet-access test beds. He holds a diploma in
electrical engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece and an MS in computer engineering from Boston University.
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