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Why is it called the ‘Media Lab’?
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It was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte, who was inspired by the Media Lab at Xerox PARC. The Media Lab is a place where people from different backgrounds can come together and work on projects that are interesting and useful. The Media Lab has a long history of doing projects that make people’s lives easier, like the first laptop computer, the first cell phone, and the first digital camera.