OLPC:News
LAPTOP NEWS
1. Antonio Battro, David Cavallo, and Nicholas spent two days in Argentina working closely with education minister Daniel Filmus, and Alejandro Piscitelli and Laura Serra of educ.ar, the independent government organization coordinating OLPC activities.
2. Nicholas and David spent Friday in São Paulo, to meet with President Lula. Rodrigo Mesquita, to whom we owe our presence in Brazil, organized and attended the meeting. Lula publicly reaffirmed Brazil’s commitment to one laptop per child. He expressed a deep connection to those in Brazil that lack opportunity, his belief in the children, and his faith in the importance of connected laptops available to all.
3. Audrey Choi has joined OLPC to work with Nicholas on various international development issues. Audrey is based in New York City and will work closely with the UN and UN Ambassadors on “country twining”, among other things.
4. Display: Fitness-of-use testing was conducted this week. We are studying the acceptance criteria and exploring what cost savings can be achieved by so doing.
5. Early estimates on UV lifetime of the LCD are encouraging and we are now more confident that our target of 22K-hour lifetime can be achieved even under harsh conditions, such as the Libyan desert.
6. With B1 machines in hand, the software team has begun a regiment of measuring subsystem performance and exercising aspects of the user interface. We are learning a great deal: this will be reflected in new system images in the coming weeks.
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MILESTONES
| 10 Nov. 2006 | First B1 boards are built |
| Oct. 2006 | B-test boards become available |
| Aug. 2006 | Working prototype of the dual-mode display |
| 06 Jun. 2006 | First video with working prototype [1] |
| May 2006 | A-test boards become available |
| 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) |
| Jan. 2005 | Laptop intiative officially announced at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland |
PRESS
Video
(Misc. videos of the laptop can be found.)
http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/061004-ee380-300.asx | Mark Foster delivers presentation to Standford University
