The architect of sugar learning platform is visiting our lab from 27th-29th. On 28th he is giving a public lecture at 4pm. Please consider this note as my invitation to come down to meet him and listen to his lecture. Please also forward this message to your other colleagues whom we met at HBCSE the other day.

Walter Bender, the founder of Sugar Labs, and an architect of the Sugar learning platform originally developed for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), now available generally, will talk about the platform and its adoption. Sugar Learning platform is now used by millions of children worldwide. He will be speaking on how the Sugar Learning platform has been designed for "Learning to Learn."

About Walter Bender: Walter Bender is a technologist and researcher who has made important contributions in the field of electronic publishing, media, and technology for learning. Bender is on leave as a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab which he led as executive director between 2000 and 2006. More recently, Bender served as president of One Laptop per Child for Software and Content where he coordinated the development of software and content including the Sugar interface for the XO-1 Children's Machine computer.

When: Tuesday 28 August 2012, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Where: G-4, NIUS Building, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education Tata Institute of Fundamental Research V. N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd Mumbai 400088

To know more about Sugar Labs visit: http://sugarlabs.org To know more about One Laptop Per Child visit: http://laptop.org To know more about Walter Bender http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bender

regards Nagarjuna