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Seymour Aubrey Papert (/ ˈ p æ p ər t /; 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 MIT. He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the constructionist movement in education.
- United States
- Frank Smithies
- July 31, 2016 (aged 88), Blue Hill, Maine, U.S.
Seymour Papert South African-born mathematician and computer scientist who was best known for his contributions to the understanding of children’s learning processes and to the ways in which technology can support learning. He invented Logo, a computer-programming language that was an educational.
- Nicole Ellison
Aug 1, 2016 · Seymour Papert, whose ideas and inventions transformed how millions of children around the world create and learn, died Sunday at his home in East Blue Hill, Maine. He was 88. Papert’s career traversed a trio of influential movements: child development, artificial intelligence, and educational technologies.
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Papert has been considered the world's foremost expert on how technology can provide new ways to learn and teach mathematics, thinking in general, and other subjects.
Sep 14, 2016 · Metrics. Father of educational computing. In the mid-1960s, when few people had even seen a computer, Seymour Papert was making it possible for children to use and program them. He spent his...
- Gary S. Stager
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- 2016
Aug 2, 2016 · Seymour Papert, a visionary educator and mathematician who well before the advent of the personal computer foresaw children using computers as instruments for learning and enhancing creativity,...
Aug 1, 2016 · Seymour Papert, whose ideas and inventions transformed how millions of children around the world create and learn, died in July 2016 at his home in East Blue Hill, Maine. He was 88. Papert’s career traversed a trio of influential movements: child development, artificial intelligence, and educational technologies.
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