Seymour Papert

Seymour Papert (born March 1 , 1928 Pretoria, South Africa ) is an MIT Mathematician , Computer Scientist , and prominent Educator . He is one of the pioneers of Artificial Intelligence , as well as an inventor of the Logo Programming Language ( 1968 ).

ABOUT PAPERT

The developer of an interesting and original vision on learning called Constructionism , built upon the work of Jean Piaget ( Constructivism ). Rethinks how schools should work based on these theories of learning. Also focuses on the impact of new technologies on learning in general and schools as a learning organisation in particular.

Has been called (by Marvin Minsky ) "the greatest living mathematics educator" of ''Mindstorms''

Worked with Jean Piaget during the 1960 and is widely considered the most brilliant and successful of Piaget's proteges. Piaget once said that "no one understand my ideas as well as Papert." Observation

Influenced the research of ; and has been the Advisory Board Chair of her company MaMaMedia .

A collaborator with LEGO on their Logo-programmable Lego Mindstorms robotics kits.

Influenced the work of Uri Wilensky in the design of NetLogo and collaborated with him on the study of knowledge restructurations.

Was a leading figure in the revolutionary socialist circle around Socialist Review while living in London in the 1950s.

BOOKS BY PAPERT

Perceptrons, (with Marvin Minsky), MIT Press, 1969 (Enlarged edition, 1988), ISBN 0262631113

The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer, 1992, ISBN 0465010636

The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap, 1996, ISBN 1563523353

ACHIEVEMENTS

the Knowledge . Seymour Papert insists a Language or Program that Children can Learn does not have to lack functionality for expert users.

Papert is one of the principals for the One Laptop Per Child initiative to manufacture and distribute the $100 Laptop in developing nations.

	CATEGORIES ABOUT SEYMOUR PAPERT

	artificial intelligence researchers

	uk socialist workers party members

	south african computer scientists

	south african educationists

	south african jews

	1928 births

	living people

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