Walter de Brouwer
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| Born |
May 9, 1957 Aalst, Belgium |
| Residence | Los Altos, California, United States |
| Nationality | Belgian, permanent resident USA |
| Alma mater | Ghent University (BA Philology; MA Formal Linguistics; postgraduate Epistemology; Tilburg University (PhD Semiotics) |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Personal Computer Magazine, Wave, Eunet (now CenturyLink), Jobscape (now Stepstone), Starlab, OLPC, Scanadu Inc. |
| Title | CEO, Chairman, Scanadu Inc. |
| Spouse(s) | Sam Lounis |
| Children | 2 sons, 1 daughter |
| Website | scanadu |
Walter De Brouwer ([də ˈbrʌuər]; born May 9, 1957) is a Belgian-born Internet and technology entrepreneur and semiotician. He is a co-founder and the ex-CEO of Scanadu in Mountain View, Calif.
De Brouwer was born in Aalst, Belgium. He earned a Masters degree in linguistics from the University of Ghent and a PhD in Semiotics from Tilburg University. He was a lecturer at the University of Antwerp (UFSIA) and an adjunct professor at the International University of Monaco from 2001-2004. He is an Entrepreneur in Residence with the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge since 2004. He sits on the editorial advisory board of the Journal for Chinese Entrepreneurship. De Brouwer is a member of the American Mathematical Society.
De Brouwer set up Riverland Publications in 1990 to publish personal computer magazines. In 1994, De Brouwer sold his titles to VNU. He then published the cyberpunk magazine Wave, edited by Michel Bauwens and designed by Niels Shoe Meulman. Wave was a cult Belgian avantgarde magazine that joined Boing-Boing and Mondo 2000 as a bridge between the underground and the world of the future.
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