Biographical sketch of author
Seymour Papert
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: papert@media.mit.edu).
Dr. Papert is internationally recognized as a leading thinker and pioneer activist in the evolution of learning in the digital world. His background in mathematics and philosophy led to a collaboration with Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva from 1959 to 1963, and then to an appointment at MIT where he cofounded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with Marvin Minsky and served successively as Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Mathematics and Education, and LEGO Professor of Learning Research at the Media Laboratory. He is the principal inventor of the Logo programming language, the first and most important effort to give our children control over the new technologies. His writings include The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas, and The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer. With Minsky he coauthored the influential book Perceptrons. More information can be found at http://www.papert.org.
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