Academic

Seymour Papert

American computer scientist (1928–2016)

Life: 1928 – 2016
Born: February 29, 1928
Died: July 31, 2016
Nationality: South Africa, United States

Seymour Aubrey Papert was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the constructionist movement in education. He was co-inventor, with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon, of the Logo programming language.