Universitaire

Seymour Papert

American computer scientist (1928–2016)

Vie: 1928 – 2016
Né(e) le: 29 février 1928
Décédé(e) le: 31 juillet 2016
Nationalité: Afrique du Sud, États-Unis

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.