Poor Seymour Papert
Poor Seymour Papert - I just read about his accident in Vietnam in December last year - hit by a motorcycle and sustaining brain damage - while searching to see if OLPC was in Vietnam, because my sister is travelling out there at the moment. Papert invented Logo, the first programming language I learned, being taught it at school as part of mathematics, and I have fond memories of charging other kids £2 for doing their Logo homework for them in the 9th year, and my teacher being unable to read the code because it was too abstract but when executed output the required result :-) And until the accident was working on the OLPC project.
Motorcycles, eurgh.
The Poor Seymour Papert by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
August 11, 2007 | Filed Under Personal Thoughts
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