Seymour Aubrey Papert (/ˈpæpərt/; 29 February 1928 – 31 July 2016) was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator,...
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educational programming language, designed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon. Logo is not an acronym: the name was coined by...
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and builds on Jean Piaget's epistemological theory of constructivism. Seymour Papert defined constructionism in a proposal to the National Science Foundation...
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introduction to computational geometry is a book written by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert and published in 1969. An edition with handwritten corrections and additions...
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Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas is a book by computer scientist Seymour Papert, in which he argues for the benefits of teaching computer literacy in...
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devaluation of authentic experience in a relationship. Together with Seymour Papert she wrote the influential paper "Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation...
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widely used confocal laser scanning microscope). He developed, with Seymour Papert, the first Logo "turtle". Minsky also built, in 1951, the first randomly...
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obtained a PhD in 1973, also in mathematics, under the supervision of Seymour Papert. His doctoral thesis was titled "A Computational Model of Skill Acquisition"...
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child psychology, Papert's principle is often used to explain the results of Jean Piaget's experiments. It is named for Seymour Papert and states that:...
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was part of a larger set of dialects and implementations created by Seymour Papert aimed at triggering the development of abstract ideas by children through...
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working at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, she worked with Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert, to create the first programming language for children, named Logo....
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turtle's motion by imagining what they would do if they were the turtle. Seymour Papert called this "body syntonic" reasoning. A full turtle graphics system...
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1990, when they divorced; they had three children. She remarried to Seymour Papert, a researcher of artificial intelligence and education theory associated...
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and Donald Knuth, the term computational thinking was first used by Seymour Papert in 1980 and again in 1996. Computational thinking can be used to algorithmically...
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of constructionist learning. The term constructionism was coined by Seymour Papert under whom Cavallo studied. Emergent design holds that education systems...
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Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 58th Yokozuna (b. 1955) 2016 – Seymour Papert, South African mathematician (b. 1928) 2017 – Jeanne Moreau, French...
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created the Logo programming language, conceived by BBN consultant Seymour Papert as a programming language that school-age children could learn. Other...
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a concept of Seymour Papert, which is intended to enable children to explore any situation and engage them completely. Although Papert never clearly...
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as a medium for exploring mathematics, MIT Press, ISBN 9780262510370 Seymour Papert, "Uses of Technology to Enhance Education", MIT Artificial Intelligence...
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rules. ELIZA was the first chatbot. In the late 60s, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert of the MIT AI Laboratory proposed that AI research should focus on artificially...
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student of James J. Kaput, Mitchel Resnick, William J. Mitchell and Seymour Papert, who studied with Jean Piaget. Shaffer began his career as a teacher...
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(born June 12, 1956) is an American computer scientist. He is the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Constructionism (learning theory), an educational philosophy developed by Seymour Papert Social constructionism, a theory of how social phenomena or objects...
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2013) was an American computer scientist who was co-inventor, with Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon, of the programming language Logo, and a well-known...
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learning theorists and psychologists Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, and Seymour Papert. Jerome Bruner is often credited with originating discovery learning...
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Alan Kay at Disney to support constructionist learning, influenced by Seymour Papert and the Logo programming language Flowcode, a visual programming tool...
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Sussman Logo Hal Abelson Denison Bollay Wally Feurzeig Brian Harvey Seymour Papert Mitchel Resnick Cynthia Solomon POP Rod Burstall Robin Popplestone...
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Michael Henshall, English Anglican suffragan bishop (d. 2017) 1928 – Seymour Papert, South African mathematician and computer scientist, co-creator of the...
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robotics hobbyists. Turtle robots are closely associated with the work of Seymour Papert and the common use of the Logo programming language in computer education...
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military-industrial complex Seymour Nebenzal (1899–1961), German film producer Seymour Nurse (1933-2019), Barbadian former cricketer Seymour Papert (1928-2016), South...
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