Today we’re remembering Seamour Papert, as we’ve received news that he died a few days ago (31st July 2016) at the age of 88. Throughout his life, Papert did so much for computing and education, he even worked with the famous Jean Piaget who helped Papert further develop his views on children and learning.
For us at OpenSTEM, Papert is also special because in the late 1960s (yep that far back) he invented the Logo programming language, used to control drawing “turtles”. The Mirobot drawing turtle we use in our Robotics Program is a modern descendant of those early (then costly) adventures.
I sadly never met him, but what a wonderful person he was.
For more information, see the media release at MIT’s Media Lab (which he co-founded) or search for his name online.
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