Ayah Bdeir Artist

Ayah Bdeir (born 1982 in Montreal, Canada) is an interactive artist, engineer, and founder/CEO of littleBits, an open source library of modular electronics that snap together with magnets. Bdeir is considered one of the leaders of the Open Hardware Movement and was named on Fastcompany's "Most Creative People in Business" for 2013.Bdeir received her masters 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 In 2010, she was awarded a fellowship with Creative Commons for her work in Open Hardware. 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 January 2011, in its second season, Stars of Science, initiated by Qatar Foundation, is the first Pan-Arab reality-TV program dedicated to innovation, aiming to shine a spotlight on the next generation of young Arab innovators.In September 2011, Bdeir started littleBits Electronics, a startup based in New York with funding from Joi Ito, Nicholas Negroponte, Joanne Wilson and others.In 2012, Bdeir received the highly prestigious TED Fellowship and gave a talk at the TED conference event in Long Beach in 2012 called "Building Blocks that Blink, beep and teach".

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Birth date	January 01, 1982
Birth place	Canada , Montreal
Nationality	Lebanon Canada

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Award	Ink CNN Creative Commons Eyebeam Art and Technology Center TED (conference) Maker Faire IDSA Fast Company Magazine
Field of work	Electronics Digital art Interactive art Electronic hardware
training at	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media lab