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Revision as of 15:42, 21 September 2006

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LAPTOP NEWS

1. Nicholas, Khaled Hassounah, Michail Bletsas, SJ Klein, and Stephen Michaud participated in Nigeria's two-day Digital Africa Conference, with one or the other of them being the keynote speaker, chairman, or panelist literally in every session. OLPC was omnipresent in the press and for the 400 delegates from 30 countries.

2. Alan Kay, Kim Rose, and the eToys team spent the week in Cambridge at the OLPC offices. They continue to make rapid progress towards the integration of eToys into the laptop software environment (they also provided useful feedback) and have eToys running on the laptop. Ian Piumarta gave the OLPC team an update on his “dynamically reconfigurable virtual machine”, which may be—in the longer term—the basis of programming environment for the Laptop, in that it is simple, fast, extremely flexible and quite eloquent.

3. Welcome Jenn Lucien to OLPC. Jenn will be working with the administrative team and covering the reception area. Originally from O`ahu, she served as the office manager to the Hawai`i Legislative Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection for five years. She spent the last year traveling in Asia and the Pacific and is excited join a project that aims to help the developing world. She holds a BA in Communication Studies from University of California at Santa Barbara.

4. Mark Foster reports that the CAFE ASIC debugging has proceeded well beyond expectations. To begin with, all three subsystems (NAND Flash, SD card slot, and camera controller) were already functional, with full DMA capability, by the time of the scheduled CAFE FPGA debugging /start/ date. Following the very successful debugging sessions by the software team, the CAFE is being enhanced to improve its capabilities and to simplify software development and robustness. As one example, the SD card controller is being modified to strictly match the public SDHCI specification. To the best of our knowledge, this should be the first truly Open Source SD implementation, with no need to obtain an SDI license or sign NDAs to create SD drivers or applications.

5. Mark also reports that the team has decided to extend support for USB 2.0. Initially, the Laptop was designed to offer support for limited power consumption USB devices in order to ensure sufficient battery life. After real-world experience with the prototype systems, it has been decided to remove this artificial power limitation and support full 2.5W power consumption on each of the three USB ports simultaneously, or even higher power consumption per port when all three ports are not being used (in fact, going beyond the power limits of the USB specification). These changes should significantly expand the universe of supported USB devices and peripherals.

6. Jim Gettys reports that Carl-Daniel Hailfinger and the LinuxBIOS team have implemented the LZMA compression system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZMA) for the BIOS ROM, resulting in a substantial savings in size.

7. Zephaniah Hull got the X driver for the touchpad functioning last weekend. Andres Salomon started contracting with OLPC this week and worked with Jim on setting up an X Window System build environment for debugging the touchpad. Next: experimentation on how to use the novel capabilities of the device.

8. John Zulauf, formerly of AMD's Geode team, has worked with AMD to free the optimization work—100–200% improvement—he did on many basic library functions: memcmp; memcpy; memset; strcmp; strcpy; and strlen. We look forward to integrating these performance improvements.

Laptop News is archived at Laptop News.

You can subscribe to the OLPC community-news mailing list by visiting the laptop.org mailman site.

Press requests: please send email to press at laptop dot org.

MILESTONES

Aug. 2006 Working prototype of the dual-mode display
06 Jun. 2006 First video with working prototype [1]
28 Jan. 2006 World Economic Forum, Switzerland
UNDP and OLPC Sign Partnership Agreement
news release
13 Dec. 2005 Quanta Computer Inc. to Manufacture Laptop
(html)(pdf)
16 Nov. 2005 WSIS, Tunisia
Prototype Unveiled by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

Photos: (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)
Webcast: (Arabic) (English) (French) (original)
Webcast provided by the ITU and UN Webcast Services with the support of RealNetworks Ltd. RealPlayer is required to view the webcast (available at no cost).

Jan. 2005 Laptop Intiative Officially Announced at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland

PRESS

14 Sep. 2006 Vanguard | Keyboard In Three Nigerian Languages Ready-Obasanjo
08 Sep. 2006 Technology Review | Hack: The Hundred Dollar Laptop
06 Sep. 2006 nacion.com | Computadoras de $100 estarán listas en el 2007
 Aug. 2006 Wired | The Laptop Crusade
07 Jul. 2006 San Diego Union-Tribune | U.S. and international educators show great interest in prototype
Jul. 2006 SPIE Professional | $100 laptop nears launch
21 Jun. 2006 BusinessWeek online | For Brazil's Poor, a Digital Deliverance?
24 May 2006 CNET News.com | $100 laptop gets working prototype
07 Apr. 2006 rediff.com | Our $100 laptops will run on human power
02 Apr. 2006 O Estado de S.Paulo | Fazer a diferença
28 Mar. 2006 FT.com | Waking up to a laptop revolution
24 Mar. 2006 Diário do Comércio | Um Laptop por Crianca
22 Mar. 2006 Times Online | Getting the world's poor logged on
09 Mar. 2006 Correio Popular | País disputa fabricação de laptop de US$ 100
  Folha de S. Paulo | Governo quer comprar 1 milhão de laptops
  Info Exame On Line | Governo quer um milhão de laptops de US$ 100
08 Mar. 2006 IDG Now | Faculdade abre programa de inclusão digital para alunos
  Folha de S. Paulo | Governo negocia fabricação do laptop de US$ 100 no Brasil
  Agência Globo | Governo estuda possibilidade de produção de computador de US$ 100 no país
  Teletime News | DVB detalha contrapartidas oferecidas ao Brasil
05 Mar. 2006 ACM/CIE | Interview with Nicholas Negroponte on the $100 laptop
16 Feb. 2006 MITIR | Podcast of Walter Bender's MURJ lecture on One Laptop per Child
15 Feb. 2006 CNET | PCs for the poor: Which design will win?
10 Feb. 2006 CNET | Perspective: Will the $100 PC fly?
09 Feb. 2006 NYTimes | A Plug for the Unplugged $100 Laptop Computer for Developing Nations
  UPI | One Laptop Project reaches critical stages
31 Jan. 2006 Slashdot | Microsoft OS Smart Phone for Developing Nations
  USA Today | Gates sees cellphones as way to help Third World
  Macworld | Red Hat officially commits to MIT's $100 laptop
28 Jan. 2006 UNDP | $100 Laptop Project Moves Closer to Narrowing Digital Divide
20 Dec. 2005 BusinessWeek online | Quanta faces challenges in making "millions and millions" of $100 laptops.
19 Dec. 2005 Forbes.com | China to decide by March whether to join OneLaptopPerChild project.
14 Dec. 2005 UPI | Nortel to take part in OneLaptopPerChild endeavor.
13 Dec. 2005 Red Herring | Quanta to manufacture laptops; expects deliveries in 2006 4th quarter.
  OLPC | Quanta Computer Inc. to Manufacture $100 Laptop
11 Dec. 2005 NYTimes | NY Times: 5th Annual Year in Ideas $100 Laptop
04 Dec. 2005 Guardian Unlimited | The $100 laptop question
01 Dec. 2005 RFDESIGN | $100 Laptops Feature Novel Peer-to-Peer Wireless Connectivity
30 Nov. 2005 FT.com | Five companies in Asia making bids to manufacture $100 laptop.
28 Nov. 2005 Fortune Magazine | THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: I'd Like to Teach the World to Type
25 Nov. 2005 People's Daily Online | Nigerian president says government has budgeted for a million $100 laptops.
18 Nov. 2005 The Electric New Paper | Gramophone? No, Laptop
17 Nov. 2005 BBC News | UN Debut for $100 Laptop for Poor
  Seattle Times | $100 Laptops Aim to Bring Children the World
  TechWhack | MIT Unveils their USD 100 Laptop
  TeitB | 100 US Dollar Laptop Computer Launched
  ZDNet | '$100 Laptops' Here by Next Year
  ABC | $100 Laptop Bridges Digital Divide
  Financial Express | Laptop @$100!
16 Nov. 2005 MIT News Office | Annan to Present Prototype $100 Laptop at World Summit on Information Society
  Reuters | Researchers Unveil $100 Laptop for Schoolkids
  CNET | $100 Laptop Takes World Stage
  CNET | $100 Laptop Expected in Late 2006
  Christian Science Monitor | A Low-Cost Laptop for Every Child
  ADNKronos International | Internet: Wind-Up, Budget Laptop Unveiled
14 Nov. 2005 WSJ | The $100 Laptop Moves Closer to Reality
13 Nov. 2005 The Inquirer | Hubris over $100 Laptop idea
New York Times | Google Earmarks $265million for Charity and Social Causes
13 Oct. 2005 Technology Review | The Hundred Dollar Man: Technology Review's editor in chief, Jason Pontin, talk with Nicholas Negroponte about the Hundred Dollar Computer.
30 Sep. 2005 Times Online | A $100 clockwork computer to help the poor to learn
29 Sep. 2005 I4U News | Sub-$100 Laptop design unveiled
28 Sep. 2005 Boston Globe | Prototypes of $100 laptop with hand crank planned by early next year.
  MIT World | NN at Technology Review
27 Sep. 2005 Datamation | Low cost PCs for the Enterprise
06 Jun. 2005 estadao.com.br | Cada criança na escola com um laptop a tiracolo

Video

(Misc. videos of the laptop can be found here.)