Ph.D.in Media Arts and Sciences, 2000, MIT. Ex director Future Learning Group Media Lab MIT, Vice-president for Education & Chief Learning Architect One Laptop per Child (OLPC), ex professor Titular Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, Consultor Fab Foundation, Center for Bits & Atoms MIT. Actualmente es director del Centro de Innovación y Diseño Avanzado CINNDA (Santiago, Chile) y Investigador Visitante Instituto de Estudos Avançados, Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brasil.