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Ayah Bdeir (born 1982 in Montreal, Canada) is the founder and CEO of littleBits, an open source library of modular electronics that snap together with magnets.〔GIRIDHARADAS, ANAND. ("The Kitchen-Table Industrialists" ). New York Times Magazine. 13 May 2011〕 Bdeir is considered one of the leaders of the Maker Movement and Open Hardware Movement and a proponent of an open Internet of Things. She was named to Fast Company's list of "Most Creative People in Business" in 2013, Entrepreneur magazine's 10 Up and Coming Leaders to Watch (2014), and Popular Mechanics' 25 Makers Who are Reinventing the American Dream (2014). Bdeir was named a 2010 Creative Commons fellow for her work in defining Open Hardware and for co-founding the Open Hardware Summits of 2010 and 2011. She is an MIT Media Lab alum〔 and a TED Senior Fellow. ==Education and career== Bdeir earned a Masters of Science degree from the MIT Media Lab and undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering and Sociology from the American University of Beirut. In 2008, she was awarded a fellowship at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York City 〔Eyebeam Press Release. ("Eyebeam will hold Open Studios for Artists In Residence and Senior Fellows" ). 15 May 2009.〕 She has taught graduate classes at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and Parsons The New School for Design. In 2010, Bdeir served as a design mentor on the reality TV show, ''Stars of Science''.〔 In September 2011, Bdeir started littleBits Electronics, a startup with the goal to “put the power of electronics in the hands of everyone, and to break down complex technologies so that anyone can build, prototype, and invent." The company is based in New York with funding from such investors as True Ventures, Foundry Group, and Two Sigma. In 2012, Bdeir received the TED Fellowship〔blog, TED. ("received" )〕 and gave a talk at the TED conference〔conference, TED. ("talk" )〕 in Long Beach called "Building Blocks That Blink, Beep and Teach." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ayah Bdeir」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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