Seymour Papert
Seymour Papert · Technology & Engineering
Co-created the Logo language and constructionist learning.
1928, Pretoria, South Africa — 2016, Blue Hill, Maine, United States
South Africa · United States
Seymour Papert is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-created the Logo language and constructionist learning.
Seymour Papert was a South African-born mathematician and computer scientist at MIT who co-created the Logo programming language and founded constructionism, the theory that children learn best by building things — laying foundations for educational computing and the AI Lab he co-led with Marvin Minsky. He is Jewish.
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Co-created the Logo language and constructionist learning.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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