# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-bender
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:50:03.376Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-bender"
name: "Walter Bender"
slug: "walter-bender"
description: "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."
tagline: "American software programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Bender_in_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://web.media.mit.edu/~walter/"
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    title: "વોલ્ટર બેન્ડેર"
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    title: "والتر بندر"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bender"
    title: "Walter Bender"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump