Seymour Aubrey Papert was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at MIT. He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the... Wikipedia
Born: February 29, 1928, Pretoria, South Africa
Died: July 31, 2016 (age 88 years), Blue Hill, ME
Education: University of Cambridge (1959), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1952), and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1949)
Notable students: Mitchel Resnick, Gerald Jay Sussman, Terry Winograd, and more
Spouse: Suzanne Massie
Known for: Perceptrons; Artificial intelligence; Logo programming language; One Laptop per Child; Papert's principle
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