The book appeared to prove without any shadow of doubt that a neural network could not be made to solve even the most basic and simple problem. Together, they wrote the 1969 book, вЂњPerceptrons,вЂќ which as had a profound (damaging) effect on AI. In 1967, at which time he was a professor of applied mathematics, he was appointed co-director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab (which later evolved into theВ Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL) by its founding director Marvin Minsky. Papert went to the U.S in 1963 and joined MIT where he spent the rest of his career.

Papert's theory of Constructionism, would build on Piaget's Constructivist learning theories. AfterВ earning his second PhD, in math research,atВ Cambridge University, England he went to the University of Geneva, where he worked with Swiss philosopher and psychologist Jean Piaget, whose theories about the ways children make sense of the world influenced PapertвЂ™s view of children and learning. Papert was born and brought up in South Africa, where as a student he was an anti apartheid activist while studying for a BA in Philosophy and aВ PhD in mathematics. Logo combines these two strands of his contribution as,when it was originally conceived in the late 1960s, it was to teach concepts of programming related toВ Lisp and only laterВ acquired its hallmark Turtle Graphics. Seymour Papert is known both as an educational-technology visionary and for marking a turning point in Artificial Intelligence. program, computers changes the way children learn other things, has died at the age of 88. Seymour Papert, co-creator of the Logo programming language and the man who pioneered the idea that learning to use, i.e.

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