Walter Bender

Not to be confused with Walter Bender (Canadian football).
Walter Bender
Walter Bender, educational software expert and free software advocate
Born (1956-02-22) February 22, 1956 (age 68)
EducationRoxbury Latin School
Alma materHarvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation(s)Chief Technical Officer, Sorcero Executive Director, Sugar Labs

Walter Bender is a technologist and researcher who works in the field of electronic publishing, media and technology for learning. From the MIT Media Lab's founding 1985 through 2006, Bender directed the lab's Electronic Publishing Group. Previous to the lab's creation, the group had also existed in the Architecture Machine Group. The research group is one of the Media Lab's oldest and one of a few that predates the creation of the lab. While at the lab, Bender held the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Chair. Bender's research has attempted to build upon the interactive styles associated with existing media and extend them into domains where a computer is incorporated into the interaction. He has participated in research in the field of electronic publishing, and personalized, interactive multimedia, particularly including news. From 2000 through 2006, Bender was executive director of The Media Lab.

In 2006, Bender took leave of absence from the Media Lab to help launch One Laptop per Child (OLPC) where he was the organization's President for Software and Content. In this role, Bender oversaw the design and development of the Sugar graphical interface for the XO-1 Children's Machine computer from 2006 to 2008. After leaving OLPC in 2008, Bender founded Sugar Labs — a non-profit organization that aims to continue development of Sugar.[1][2]

An expert in computers and learning and strongly influenced by constructionism, Bender is the lead developer of both Turtle Blocks and Music Blocks, Logo-inspired programming languages for children. Bender is an advocate for the use of Free Software for learning projects and works with like-minded educators and engineers around the world.

Walter Bender earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1977 and a Master of Science degree in 1980 from MIT, where he worked in the Architecture Machine Group, a precursor to the MIT Media Lab.

References

  1. ^ "Bender Forms Group to Promote OLPC's Sugar UI". PC World.
  2. ^ Bender, Walter; Kane, Charles; Cornish, Jody; Donahue, Neil (11 December 2012). Learning to Change the World, The Social Impact of One Laptop Per Child. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 256. ISBN 9780230337312.


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