Cynthia Solomon is an American computer scientist known for popularizing computer science for students and for work in educational computing. While a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology she taught herself to program in Lisp, and in doing so saw the need for a more accessible programming language for children. At Bolt, Beranek and Newman she worked with Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert on Logo, the first programming language for children, created to teach programming concepts drawn from Lisp. She was vice president of research and development at Logo Computer Systems, Inc. when the Apple Logo product was developed, and was Director of the Atari Cambridge Research Laboratory. Her research and writing concern human-computer interaction and children as designers, and she has run workshops in schools and worked with the One Laptop per Child Foundation.
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is an American computer scientist known for her work in popularizing computer science for students
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Cynthia Solomon (Wikipedia)
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is an American computer scientist known for her work in popularizing computer science for students
In Group: Programming Language Designers, Article text
she worked with Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert, to create the first programming language for children, named Logo
In Field: Human Computer Interaction, Article text [in-field]
Her work has mainly focused on research on human-computer interaction and children as designers.
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