Walter Bender,
holder of the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Chair, is executive director of the MIT
Media Laboratory. He is a senior research scientist, director of the Electronic Publishing group,
and a member of the laboratory's information: organized (formerly News in the Future)
consortium. Mr. Bender also directs the Gray Matters special interest group, which focuses on
technology's impact on the aging population. He received his BA from Harvard University in
1977. Mr. Bender joined the Architecture Machine Group at MIT in 1978. He received his
MS at MIT in 1980. A founding member of the Media Laboratory, Mr. Bender is engaged in
the study of new information technologies, particularly those that affect people directly. Much
of the research addresses the idea of building upon the interactive styles associated with existing
media and extending them into domains where a computer is incorporated into the interaction.
He has participated in much of the pioneering research in the field of electronic publishing and
personalized interactive multimedia.
1. Andreas Agiorgitis
