Biography

=Seymour Papert: Seminal Thinker, Mathematician, Educator, and Computer Scientist= = =

Biography:
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 * Dr. Seymour Papert is a mathemetician, computer scientist, and educator. Born and educated in South Africa.
 * Internationally recognized as a visionary thinker for:


 * 1) Developing new understandings about how children learn and think
 * 2) Breakthrough research in digital technology and education
 * 3) Inventing cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and applied mathematics
 * Joined the faculty at Witwaterstrand University
 * Conducted mathematical research at Cambridge University in England and at the Institut Henri Pincare in Paris.
 * Worked alongside Jean Piaget at the Centre d’Epistemologic Genetique in Geneva studying how children learn
 * He was invited in 1964 to MIT as a research associate which led to a faculty appointment - Professor of Mathematics and later as Professor of Learning Research
 * Helped found the Artificial Intelligence Lab with Marvin Minsky
 * Developed Computer Language, LOGO
 * Pioneered early ideas in the use of computers by children that led to the first concept of the laptop computer
 * Founding member of the Media Laboratory at MIT in 1985
 * Lego Company recognized Papert with the “Lego-Papert Chair of Learning Research”

=Seymour Papert's Accident=


 * Seymour Papert suffered an accident on December 5, 2006 while attending, as keynote speaker, the 17th annual conference of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction hosted by Hanoi Technology University in Vietnam.
 * Seymour was hit by a motorcyclist driving at high speeds and suffered severe brain injuries which left him in a coma and required two emergency brain operations at the French Hospital in Hanoi to save his life. He continues to undergo rehabilitation….

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