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Walter Bender is founder and executive director of Sugar Labs, a non-profit foundation. In 2006, Bender co-founded the One Laptop per Child, a non-profit association with Nicholas Negroponte and Seymour Papert. As director of the MIT Media Laboratory, Bender led a team of researchers in fields as varied as tangible media to affective computing to lifelong kindergarten. In 1992, Bender founded the MIT News in the Future consortium, which launched the era of digital news.
Walter Bender is founder of Sugar Labs, a
member project of the non-profit foundation Software Freedom
Conservancy. Sugar Labs develops educational software used by more
than three-million children in more than forty countries. In 2006,
Bender co-founded the One Laptop per Child, a non-profit association
with Nicholas Negroponte and Seymour Papert. As director of the MIT
Media Laboratory, Bender led a team of researchers in fields as varied
as tangible media to affective computing to lifelong kindergarten. In
1992, Bender founded the MIT News in the Future consortium, which
launched the era of digital news.
Bender received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in
1977 and a masters degree from MIT in 1980, where he founded the
Electronic Publishing research group. He was a founding member of the
MIT Media Lab, where he was a Senior Scientist and holder of the
Alexander W Dreyfoos Chair. Bender has served on numerous boards and
committees, including IBM's mobile computing advisory board and the
GNOME technical advisory board. He has held visiting faculty
appointments at international universities, including the University
of Tampere, and continues to serve on university research advisory
boards and on occasion teaches at Hult and MIT Sloan business schools.
Bender He has written a book, ''Leaning to Change the World'', on social
entrepreneurship that was published in Q4 2012.
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