The Institute of Arts (IA) at Unicamp released an official statement lamenting the death of Professor José Armando Valente. See the full statement below:
"With regret, the Institute of Arts mourns the loss, which occurred on December 28, 2025, of retired full professor José Armando Valente from the Department of Multimedia, Media and Communication."
He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from USP (University of São Paulo) and earned a master's degree in Computer Science from Unicamp (University of Campinas) in 1974. Then, in 1979, he completed his Interdisciplinary Master's degree in Science at MIT. From then on, his research focused on the relationships between teaching and learning, digital technologies, and communication – as seen in his doctorate from MIT, his habilitation thesis, and his tenured professorship – both in the field of Education and Technology of Media Studies.
He was a researcher and coordinator of the Center for Applied Informatics in Education at Unicamp, a collaborating professor in the Postgraduate Program in Education: Curriculum at PUCSP, between 1996-2018, and a member of the Education Advisory Committee/CNPq from 2011 to 2014.
Internationally, his work at the UCL Knowledge Lab in London stands out between 2007-08, and he was also a Visiting Scholar at the Lemann Center at Stanford University. Between 2017 and 2018, he was the principal investigator of the Socio-E-native Systems project, funded by FAPESP.
Since 2020, he has collaborated with the Maker Culture Project: what's of making in local communities and developed the BNCC research and undergraduate computer science courses. He has received several awards. Among them, in 2002, he received the National Order of Educational Merit from the Presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil. In 2009, he received the Jabuti Prize.
In 2002 and 2016, Zeferino Vaz was awarded by his university. Recently, he was honored by the Special Informatics Commission of the Brazilian Computer Society and received the FabLearn Lifetime Achievement Award from Columbia University. His research and training agenda has been divided between 50 doctoral and 39 master's theses.
A valued colleague, he leaves behind his wife and two daughters – all of whom he loved dearly.
Prof. Dr. Iara Lis Franco Schiavinatto – Full Professor – Department of Multimedia, Media and Communication, Institute of Arts.
