He studied at MIT in both the undergraduate and graduate Architecture programs, focusing his research on issues of computer-aided design (CAD). He earned a Master's degree in architecture from MIT in 1966 and for several years thereafter, divided his teaching time between MIT, Yale, Michigan and UC Berkeley. In 1967, he founded MIT's Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank, which studied new approaches to human-computer interaction. In 1985, Negroponte co-created the MIT Media Lab with Jerome B. Wiesner, where, as director, he developed the lab into the pre-eminent computer science laboratory for new media and investigations into human-computer interaction.