Seymour Papert

Seymour Papert
Papert with a Turtle robot
Born	Seymour Aubrey Papert (1928-02-29)29 February 1928 Pretoria, Union of South Africa
Died	31 July 2016(2016-07-31) (aged 88) Blue Hill, Maine, U.S.
Alma mater	University of the Witwatersrand (BA, PhD)[1] University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for	Perceptrons Artificial intelligence Logo programming language One Laptop per Child Papert's principle
Spouses	Dona Strauss Androula Henriques Sherry Turkle Suzanne Massie
Scientific career
Fields	Cognitive science Education Mathematics Computer science
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Geneva University of Paris National Physical Laboratory
Theses	Sequential Convergence in Lattices with Special Reference To Modular and Subgroup Lattices  (1952) The Lattices of Logic and Topology (1960)
Doctoral advisor	Frank Smithies
Doctoral students	Idit Harel Caperton[1] Carl Hewitt[1] Mitchel Resnick[1] Edwina Rissland[1] David Williamson Shaffer[1] Gerald Jay Sussman[1] Terry Winograd[1]
Website	papert.org

Seymour Aubrey Papert (/ˈpæpərt/; 29 February 1928 – 31 July 2016) was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at MIT.^[2][3][4] He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the constructionist movement in education.^[5] He was co-inventor, with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon, of the Logo programming language.^{[2][6][7][8][9]}