We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'

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. From 1993 to 1998 he contributed a monthly column to the magazine in which he reiterated a basic theme: "Move bits not atoms. He earned a Master's degree in architecture from MIT in 1966.