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Novint’s Chief Technology Officer, Walter A. Aviles, has over 20 years of technical and managerial experience, in commercial, government and academic environments, where he has spearheaded the design and development of advanced, first of a kind, human/machine interfaces, virtual environments and robotic systems. Prior to joining Novint, Mr. Aviles was a Vice President at SensAble Technologies and a founding Principal at Teneo Computing. At SensAble, Mr. Aviles helped establish the company's software group, produced the world's first commercial haptic software development toolkit and led the development of the FreeForm haptically enabled 3D product design application. The later received the first Grand Innovation Award ever presented by Computer Graphics World and is used by customers such as Hasbro, Mattel/Fisher-Price and New Balance. At Teneo, he continued to help pioneer the development of commercial, haptically-enabled solutions for customers such as Mobil, NHK and Harvard. Mr. Aviles holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is member of the Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Chi engineering honor associations. | 