What is Seymour Papert?
[[Image:Papert.jpg|thumb|Seymour Papert in 2006]] '''Seymour Aubrey Papert''' (29 February 1928, Pretoria, Union of [[South Africa]] – 31 July 2016, [[Maine]], U.S.) was a groundbreaking [[mathematician]], [[Computer science|computer scientist]], and educator.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Langer |first1=Emily |title=Seymour Papert, MIT professor who connected children with computers, dies at 88: The MIT scholar championed the PC as a tool to unlock a child's enthusiasm for learning.| newspaper=The Washington Post |date=4 Aug 2016}}</ref> He spent his career at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]. He was an early leader in the field of [[artificial intelligence]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fisher |first1=Arthur |title=The end of school? |issue=1 |publisher=Popular Science |date=Jan 1994|volume=244 }}</ref> He is one of the founders of the constructivist movement in education. With Cynthia Solomon and Wally Feurzeig he invented the Logo Programing Language. He was co-director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab with [[Marvin Minsky]]. He advocated for computers in education as a tool for constructivist education. His work influenced many 21st-century thinkers in American education.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sachs |first1=Jeffrey |title=The essential ingredient. |journal=New Scientist |date=17 Aug 2002 |issue=Vol. 175, Issue 2356}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Papert, Seymour}} [[Category:Educators from Maine]] [[Category:American computer scientists]] [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:South African scientists]] [[Category:American mathematicians]] [[Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty]] {{bio-stub}}