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=== bio ===

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.

=== bio en es ===

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 === bio ===
-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
+, 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
+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.
 === bio en es ===