Tim Browne

Tim Browne is an American entrepreneur best known for his early involvement in several advanced technology start-ups including the Media Laboratory at MIT, The Interactive Television Consortium, Thinking Machines, and most recently, the International Children's Digital Library Foundation, a foundation he helped found and today serves as its Executive Director. He is the son of William Donald Browne, Director of Philanthropy for The Cudahy Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In 1989, Tim was the Executive Producer of the first live interactive broadcasts of NFL Monday Night Football (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), Professional Golf Association (PGA), Professional Bowling Association (PBA) and the United States Tennis Association (USTA) in cooperation with NBC Sports, ABC Sports, General Motors, AT&T, Coca Cola and McCann-Erickson. Three channels of additional programming were simultaneously broadcast along with the sporting events to homes in Springfield MA and test panels in AT&T's Bell Labs.

Tim also was a cast member on the highly acclaimed NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) Television's "Eigo Shokyu Kaiwa with Tazaki Sensei" in Japan. He was often heard on NHK Radio.

Between NHK and the International Children's Dgitial Library, Tim has written a technology column for the Yomiuri Shimbun, worked for IBM as General Manager of it Lotus Notes Marketing group, was CEO of Infoteria US, and help found Instant Technologies, LLC of Durham, New Hampshire. He is an elected Library Trustee in Manchester By The Sea, MA where he lives with his beautiful daughters Emily, Kelsey, and Piper Browne.

While doing graduate work at Columbia University in the City of New York, Browne translated a number of Japanese literary works. These included classic Kabuki texts such as Chikamatsu's "Sword of Nakamichi" (The Sword of Nagamachi, 1690) and more modern works such as Kōbō Abe's "Tomodachi" (Friends, 1967) and Matsumoto Seicho's historical nonfiction work, "Nippon no Kuroi Kiri" (Black Fog over Japan, 1961). Browne also wrote a technology column for the Yomiuri Shimbun.

References

For more about Browne's role in the Media Lab see * "The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT", 1987, ISBN 0-670-81442-3 (hardcover); 1988, ISBN 0-14-009701-5 (paperback)

External links

For more about the Interactive Television Consortium see [http://www.dianahawkins.com/htdocs/projects/projects.htm Dr. Diana Gagnon Hawkins]