Seymour Papert
Seymour Aubrey Papert, Seymour A. Papert
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Seymour Aubrey Papert (; 29 February 1928 – 31 July 2016) 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 language.
Career
- 1928Born
- 1981Won Marconi Prize
- 2016Passed away
- Won Guggenheim Fellowship
- Notable work: Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas
- Notable work: Logo
- Notable work: One Laptop per Child
- Notable work: Perceptrons
- Notable work: Lego Mindstorms
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Pretoria
- •Citizenship: South Africa, United States
- •Known as: mathematician, computer scientist, educator, university teacher
- •Spouse: Suzanne Massie
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Seymour Papert, MIT scholar who connected children with computers, dies at 88
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Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88
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