Seymour Papert
Technologist and Scientist
Actor model...selector, etc. In 1972 Kay visited MIT and discussed some of his ideas for Smalltalk-72 building on the Logo work of Seymour Papert and the "little person" model of computation used for teaching children to program. However, the message... In this article: Carl Hewitt, Smalltalk, Simula, Java, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gul Agha, Henry Baker, and Tony Hoare |
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reddit.com: what's new online | January 26, 2009
Alan Kay: The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. The biggest barrier to improving education for children... is the completely impoverished imaginations of most adults.
...in forms they could recognize and use for their own ends. I still regard these insights by Seymour as among the top few of all time regarding what computers are really good for." -Alan Kay "OTOH, the extreme build it from scratch approach...
In this article: Alan Kay, Mathematics, Pumpkin, Linux, VI, Microsoft Office, Emacs, Reddit, and Lunar Lander
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Wikipedia | October 14, 2009
Etoys (programming language)
...learning. Primary influences include Seymour Papert and the Logo programming language, a dialect of Lisp optimized for educational use; work done at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, PARC ; Smalltalk, HyperCard, and StarLogo (cf. ). Scott...
In this article: Etoys, Squeak, Smalltalk, Python, Morphic, Lisp, Laptop, HyperCard, and PARC
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Constructionism (learning theory)
...of constructionist learning. In 2005, Papert, together with Nicholas Negroponte and Alan Kay launched the One Laptop Per Child initiative to put constructionist learning into practice in the developing world. The aim is to provide $100...
In this article: Lego Group, Mathematics, Psychology, SimCity, Jean Piaget, Nicholas Negroponte, and Alan Kay
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Jean Piaget
...effect in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence. Seymour Papert used Piaget's work while developing the Logo programming language. Alan Kay used Piaget's theories as the basis for the Dynabook programming system...
In this article: Jean Piaget, Thomas Kuhn, Lev Vygotsky, University of Neuchatel, Alfred Binet, and Psychology
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Seymour Papert
...(marketed as Lego Mindstorms). He also influenced the research of Idit Harel Caperton, coauthoring articles and the book Constructionism and chairing the advisory board of the company MaMaMedia. He also influenced Alan Kay and the...
In this article: MIT, Jean Piaget, Mathematics, Lego, Alan Kay, Smithsonian Award, University of Paris, and Cambridge University
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Alan Kay
...him to learn of the work of Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, Lev Vygotsky, and of Constructionist learning. These further influenced his views. In 1970, Kay joined Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center, PARC . In the 1970s he was one of...
In this article: Alan Curtis Kay, Walt Disney Imagineering, Squeak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PARC, Apple Computer, Smalltalk, and Sketchpad
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Seymour Papert (born February 29, 1928 in Pretoria, South Africa) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator. He is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language.
- Birth Date:
- March 01, 1928
- Birthplace:
- Pretoria, South Africa
- Nationality:
- American
- Students:
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- Fred Martin
- Uri Wilensky
- Carl Hewitt
- Marina Bers
- Terry Winograd
- David Williamson Shaffer
- Gerald Jay Sussman
- Mitchel Resnick
- Idit Harel Caperton
- David Cavallo
- Residence:
- United States
- University Attended:
- Field:
- Mathematics
- Known for:
- OLPC
- Logo programming language
- Artificial intelligence
- Associated With:
- MIT
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