Cross posted from our friend Aaron Rowe at Wired Science: Forty years ago, researchers developed a programming language that would become a brilliant educational tool. As I remember it, LOGO was a ...

In 1967, the Logo programming language launched, aimed at teaching kids how to move a triangle “turtle” around to draw lines on a screen.

Sure, it may not have the sophisticated robotics or even fancy graphics of today's tools, but the Logo programming language has been the first blush with programming of those who would eventually ...

If your school in the 1980s was lucky enough to have a well-equipped computer lab, the chances are that alongside the 8-bit ...

The machine was intended to run the Logo programming language developed by [Seymour Papert] and others, but this was impossible due to its tiny control store.

Seymour Papert, one of the creators of the Logo programming language and a significant influence behind One Laptop Per Child and Lego Mindstorms, died Sunday at home in Maine. He was 88.

Inspiration for the device came after Kay met Seymour Papert in 1968 and learned of the Logo programming language, primarily developed for education which was a lifelong interest of Kay's. In addition ...

Seymour Papert, one of the creators of the Logo programming language and a significant influence behind ‘One Laptop Per Child’ and ‘Lego Mindstorms’, has died.

Seymour Papert, an emeritus professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who invented the influential Logo programming language, has been seriously injured in a traffic accident in Hanoi ...