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5 unusual facts about Seymour Papert


Alexander Tzonis

There he taught and did advanced research in analytical design methods in association with Walter Isard and Ovadia Salama, receiving outside advice from Anatol Rapaport and Seymour Papert.

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As such, it is part of an ongoing movement in computers and education that began with the work of Seymour Papert and the MIT Logo Group in the 1960s and has also manifested itself with Mitchel Resnick's work on Lego Mindstorms and StarLogo.

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Coordinated by Benson R. Snyder, Donald A. Schon and Seymour Papert, the DSRE was an innovative interdisciplinary center for “learning about learning” at the individual, institutional and societal levels.

Henry Lieberman

Dr. Lieberman was a research scientist from 1972-87 at the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, working with influential computer scientists such as Seymour Papert and Carl Hewitt.

Idit Harel Caperton

During her time at MIT, Idit co-wrote and published several grant proposals and articles with Seymour Papert (creator of the Logo programming language), and in 1991 they co-edited and published Constructionism, the first book about Constructionist learning.


Frank Rosenblatt

The initial excitement became somewhat reduced, though, when in 1969 Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published the book Perceptrons with mathematical proofs that elucidated some of the characteristics of the three-layer feed-forward perceptrons.

Yasmin Kafai

In the U.S., Kafai worked with Seymour Papert at the MIT Media Laboratory and was a faculty member of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.


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