Nicole Yankelovich

Open Wonderland United States

Executive Director

Technology / Software / Internet

Nicole helped to found the Open Wonderland Foundation in February 2010. She is also a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives as well as the CEO of WonderBuilders, a consulting company that creates custom virtual worlds for clients. Nicole started the Wonderland project in 2007 as Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Environments research program at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. This open source project, now a community-run effort, is a toolkit for creating 3D virtual worlds for business and education.