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According to Wikipedia , 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 constructionist movement in education. He was co-inventor, with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon, of the Logo programming language.
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1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 5000 5500 6000 6500 7000 7500 8000 Published Papers Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1981) Perceptrons - an introduction to computational geometry (1969) (3163)The children's machine: rethinking school in the age of the computer (1993) Counter-Free Automata (1971) (923)Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and Voices within the Computer Culture (1990) Affective Learning — A Manifesto (2004) Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete. (1992) (496)Software Design as a Learning Environment (1990) The Children's Machine (1993) (453)The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap (1996) (403)Perceptrons: expanded edition (1988) (333)An exploration in the space of mathematics educations (1996) Teaching Children Thinking (1972) Computer Criticism vs. Technocentric Thinking (1987) Counter-Free Automata (M.I.T. research monograph no. 65) (1971) (263)What's the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power (2000) Programming-languages as a conceptual framework for teaching mathematics (1969) A Critique of Technocentrism in Thinking About the School of the Future (1988) Constructionism: Research Reports and Essays, 1985-1990 (1991) Teaching Children to be Mathematicians vs. Teaching About Mathematics. Artificial Intelligence Memo Number 249. (1971) Information Technology and Education: Computer Criticism vs. Technocentric Thinking (1987) Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry, Expanded Edition (1987) (175)An introduction to computational geometry (1969) Twenty Things To Do With A Computer (1971) (152)Artificial Intelligence, Language, and the Study of Knowledge (1977) Tinkering Towards Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform (book) (1997) An interpretation of Piaget's constructivism (1982) (115)LEGO, Logo, and design. (1988) (87)Uses of Technology to Enhance Education (1973) (79)Microworlds: transforming education (1987) (79)Children and Computer Technology : Analysis and Recommendations (2000) (78)The Summer Vision Project (1966) (73)Implications for the future. (1999) Artificial Intelligence Progress Report (1972) (64)A case study of a young child doing turtle graphics in LOGO (1976) One AI or many (1989) (58)New Theories for New Learnings. (1984) Unrecognizable Sets of Numbers (1966) A Computer Laboratory for Elementary Schools (1971) (41)Which distributive lattices are lattices of closed sets? (1959) A Word for Learning (2012) Teaching children thinking (LOGO memo) (1971) (34)The Turtle's Long Slow Trip: Macro-Educological Perspectives on Microworlds (2002) Computers and Computer Cultures. (1981) (32)Final Report of the Brookline LOGO Project. Part II: Project Summary and Data (1979) (31)Computer as Material: Messing about with Time (1988) The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences: Afterword: After How Comes What (2005) Centrally Produced Geometrical Illusions (1961) You Can’t Think About Thinking Without Thinking About Thinking About Something (2005) (24)Proposal to ARPA for Research on Artificial Intelligence at MIT, 1970-1971 (1970) (23)Climbing to Understanding: Lessons from an Experimental Learning Environment for Adjudicated Youth (2004) (23)They have their own thoughts: children's learning of computational ideas from a cultural constructionist perspective (1998) (19)Technological fluency and the art of motorcycle maintenance: emergent design of learning environments (thailand) (2000) (19)Redefining Childhood: The Computer Presence as an Experiment in Developmental Psychology (1980) (18)Some Poetic and Social Criteria for Education Design (1976) (17)On making a theorem for a child (1972) Different visions of logo (1985) Linearly Unrecognizable Patterns (1967) Final Report of the Brookline LOGO Project. Part III: Profiles of Individual Student's Work (1979) (14)Computer as Mudpie. (1984) (13)Educational Computing: How Are We Doing? (1997) (13)Information Prosthetics for the Handicapped (1978) (12)The Artificial Intelligence of Hubert L. Dreyfus; A Budget of Fallacies (1968) (12)Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and Voices within the Computer Culture. (1992) Tomorrow's classrooms (1987) (12)Teaching Children Thinking. Artificial Intelligence Memo Number 247. (1971) (11)The Brookline LOGO Project. Final Report. Part II: Project Summary and Data Analysis. A.I. Memo No. 545. LOGO Memo No. 53. (1979) (11)Twenty Things to Do With a Computer. Artificial Intelligence Memo Number 248. (1971) (10)Education in the Information Age: What Works and What Doesn't (1998) (9)Interim Report of the LOGO Project in the Brookline Public Schools: An Assessment and Documentation of a Children's Computer Laboratory. Artificial Intelligence Memo No. 484. (1978) (9)Styles and Voices (1993) (9)Logo Progress Report 1973-1975 (1975) (9)Identity construction environments: the design of computational tools for exploring a sense of self and moral values (2001) (8)Piaget ’ s theory of intelligence : operational aspect (2008) (7)A Computer Laboratory for Elementary Schools. Artificial Intelligence Memo Number 246. (1971) (7)AFTER‐DINNER ADDRESS: THE FUN OF FAILURES * (1969) Let's Tie the Digital Knot. (1998) (6)1968-1969 Progress Report (1970) (6)An abstract theory of topological subspaces (1964) NIM: A Game-Playing Program (1970) (6)New Views on Logo and [An Interview with Seymour Papert]. (1986) (6)Twenty heads are better than one: communities of children as virtual experts (1998) (5)Logo and Intelligent Videodisc Applications for Pre-Readers (1985) Panel Discussion (1984) Proposal to NSF: An Evaluative Study of Modern Technology in Education (1976) (4)Chapter 1 The Conservation of Piaget : The Computer as Grist to the Constructivist Mill (4)A Case Study of a Young Child Doing Turtle Graphics in LOGO. AI Memo 375. (1899) Assessment and Documentation of a Children's Computer Laboratory (1977) (3)Just a Computer. (1986) (2)The Next Step: LogoWriter. (1986) (2)Minding Change (2006) Learning media and learning environments : technology and cognition (1987) (1)The Peristroika of Epistemological Politics. (2016) (1)Interviews with Seymour Papert (2004) NIM: A Game-Playing Program. Artificial Intelligence Memo Number 254. (1970) (1)New Theories for new learnings (LOGO memo) (1984) (1)Proposal to ARPA for Continuation of Micro-Automation Development (1973) (1)Commentary: The State of Learning: A Preview (2013) Computer Tracking of Eye Motions (1967) (1)Information Prosthetics for the Handicapped. Artificial Intelligence Memo No. 496. (1978) (1)Proposal to ARPA for Continued Research on A.I. for 1973 (1972) (0)Interactive Learning Environments (2006) (0)Play and the genesis of middle manager agents (1993) (0)Introductory Remarks (2003) The Influence of Computers on Children and Vice Versa@@@Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1982) Editorial (1996) Information Technology Importance in the Development of Learners' Professional Self-Identity (2021) (0)Perceptrons and Pattern Recognition (1967) Linear Separation and Learning (1968) What Are You Talking About? (2003) XXI. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (1961) (0)infoDev Launches the eXchange Meetswith (2002) (0)CAI problems and prospects (1969) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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