Here's Why

Interview with Professor Barry Vercoe

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I spoke with Professor Barry Vercoe of MIT Media Labs about the One Laptop Per Child Foundation at the Sydney Mechanic's School of the Arts. In the background you hear the delighted cries of people playing with the XO laptops.

About the author: Ian Woolf lives in Sydney, has a degree in Applied Science, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, research assistant, Cisco CCNA tutor, Physics laboratory demonstrator, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to freelance writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Diffusion radio science show on radio 2SER 107.3FM Monday at 6:30pm in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Diffusion podcasts. You should follow me on twitter, here