Saturday, October 6, 2007

Seymour Papert

Seymour Papert is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and education. He is one of the pioneers of artifical intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language. In 1997 Papert received the Computer world Smithsonian award for leadership in education.
Today Papert is considered the world's foremost expert on on how technology can provide new ways to learn. He has carried out educational projects on every continent some of in remote, villages in developing countries. He is a participant in developing the most influential cutting edge opportuniies for children to participant in the digital world. Papert lives in Maine, where he has funded a small laboratory called the Learning Barn to develop methods of learning that are too far head of the times for large-scale implementation. He is named by distingued professor by the University of Maine.

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