In Memory: Seymour Papert
MIT Media Lab,
Aug 02, 2016
Seymour Papert passed away on Sunday and the web is - not surprisingly - full of tributes. I remember him most as an artificial intelligence researcher, and colleague of Marvin Minsky, but he is more widely recognized as an education innovator and theorist. I met him only once, back in 2003 or so, at a conference in Quebec City. These last few days the web has been full of tributes, not surprisingly.
From Paulo Blikstein, some links:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/seymourpapert/
- This is the video of a tribute to him in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=588Tyv827b4
- And the introduction to the tribute, "You cannot think about thinking without thinking about what Seymour Papert would think:" http://bit.ly/2aqiJkJ
- http://papert.org
- http://dailypapert.com
- His collected works: http://dailypapert.com/the-collected-writings-of-seymour-p…/
- An amazing debate with Paulo Freire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V-0KfBdWao
- A great talk by Gary S. Stager about Seymour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-dFTmdX1kU
- Logo Foundation
Tributes and such:
- Will Richardson, RIP Seymour Papert
- Steve Wheeler - Papert - in his own words
- Philip Greenspun - Remembering Seymour Papert, Pilot
- Audrey Watters - Photos
- Donald Clark - Seymour Papert – Logo, Lego and constructionism - RIP
- Derek Wenmoth - RIP Seymour Papert
- Mark Guzdial - Seymour Papert has died and leaves a lasting legacy
- New York Times - Seymour Papert, 88, Dies; Saw Education's Future in Computers
- Educating Alice - R.I.P. Father of Kids' Coding, Seymour Papert
- Hacker News - Seymour Papert has died
- Fortune - AI and Computer Learning Lion Seymour Papert Dies at 88
- Motherboard - Seymour Papert, a Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence and Kids Coding, Has Died
- Ars Technica - Seymour Papert, theorist behind One Laptop Per Child, dies at 88
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