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Article: OLPC Announces First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer.
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- January 3, 2007
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Sugar Interface is Designed to Foster Collaborative Learning among Children in Developing Countries
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization with the goal of providing laptop computers to all children in developing nations, today announced a breakthrough user interface (UI), called Sugar, for OLPC's innovative XO laptop computer. The Sugar UI, jointly developed with Red Hat and Pentagram, is the first to have been purpose-built as an educational environment for children using laptops. It is designed to support the learning experiences of elementary- and secondary-school children in poor, often rural communities by providing them ...