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 ...

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 ...

Six years ago, I suggested that kids start with Logo, the earliest CS education language, and I still believe it remains a strong option available today. Here’s the most important part: If you can ...

[Prof. Marvin Minsky] is a very well-known figure in the field of computing, having co-founded the MIT AI lab, published extensively on AI and computational intelligence, and, let’s not forget, ...

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.

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 ...