Seymour Papert

Seymour Aubrey Papert was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist and educator. He was born on 29 February 1928 and died on 31 July 2016. He spent most of his career teaching and researching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is remembered as one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence and of the constructionist movement in education, so his name belongs to both the computing tradition and the history of how people are taught. With Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon he co-invented the Logo programming language. The Atlas places him among the artificial intelligence pioneers alongside his role as a co-inventor of Logo.