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“Dr.
Seymour Papert is a mathematician and one of the early pioneers of Artificial
Intelligence. He is internationally recognised as a seminal thinker about ways
in which computers can change learning. Born and educated in South Africa, where
he participated actively in the anti-apartheid movement, Dr. Papert pursued
mathematical research at Cambridge University from 1954-1958. From 1958 to 1963
he worked with Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva. It was this
collaboration that led him to consider using mathematics in the service of
understanding how children can learn and think. In the early 1960's, Papert
joined MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), where, with Marvin
Minsky, he founded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-authored their
seminal work Perceptrons (1970).” (Retrieved December 30, 2000, from
the World Wide Web: http://www.mediamente.rai.it/mediamentetv/learning/ed_multimediale/english/bibliote/biografi/p/papert.htm)