KQED: Projects, Passion, Peers and Play: Seymour Papert's Vision For Learning
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Seymour Aubrey Papert was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the constructionist movement in education. He was co-inventor, with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon, of the Logo programming langu…
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science · American computer scientist (1928–2016) · mathematician · computer scientist · educator · university teacher · psychologist · artificial intelligence researcher · also Seymour Papert, Seymour Aubrey Papert, Seymour A. Papert, Papert
Born 29 February 1928 · Died 31 July 2016 · Q335027
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KQED: Projects, Passion, Peers and Play: Seymour Papert's Vision For Learning
The Journal: What We Learned from Seymour Papert
Education Week: Seymour Papert’s Legacy Remains in Our Hands
The Forward: Remembering Seymour Papert: Revolutionary Socialist and Father of A.I.
The Washington Post: Seymour Papert, MIT scholar who connected children with computers, dies at 88
Education Week: Seymour Papert, Ed-Tech Researcher and Visionary, Dies
Ars Technica: Seymour Papert, theorist behind One Laptop Per Child, dies at 88
Died 2016-07-31.
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Papert's alma mater, the University of the Witwatersrand, awarded him the degree of Doctor of Science in Engineering, honoris causa
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Awarded Marconi Prize (1981).
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Papert along with several others in the Logo group at MIT, started Logo Computer Systems Inc
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A Marconi International fellowship in 1981, the Software Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994, and the Smithsonian Award from Computerworld in 1997
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Studied at St John's College, doctorate (1954–1959).
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Studied at University of the Witwatersrand, doctorate (1952).
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Followed by a PhD in mathematics in 1952
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Born 1928-02-29.
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