MIT'S Nicholas Negroponte nominated to Motorola Board of Directors.

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 1996--Nicholas Negroponte, a founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Laboratory, has been nominated to stand for election to the Motorola Board of Directors. Stockholders will vote on the nomination at Motorola's annual meeting on May 7, 1996.

Negroponte, 52, studied at MIT, where as a graduate student he specialized in the then new field of computer aided design. In 1966 he joined MIT's faculty and in 1967 he founded MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank responsible for many radically new approaches to the human- computer interface. He became a full professor at MIT in 1980. In 1992 Mr. Negroponte co-founded Wired magazine of which he is the senior columnist. Mr. Negroponte received a B.A. and M.A. in Architecture from M.I.T.

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