[MLTI-HS] Seymour Papert seriously injured

[Jeff Mao]

Seymour Papert, our visionary for  MLTI, was in a terrible accident  
this week. The Boston Globe reports:

December 7, 2006
Seymour Papert, a professor emeritus at MIT who is one of the  
pioneers of artificial intelligence and an authority on how computers  
can help children learn, was seriously injured after being struck by  
a motorbike in Hanoi, where he was attending a conference. The  
accident on Tuesday left Papert, 78, in a coma. He underwent brain  
surgery at French Hospital, hospital officials said.

He was struck while crossing a street near his hotel, Hoang Xuan Lan  
of Hanoi Technology University, told the Associated Press. The  
university is hosting the conference.

A native of South Africa, Papert worked with renowned researcher Jean  
Piaget and helped develop the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at  
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Marvin Minsky. Their  
book, "Perceptrons," is considered one of the seminal works on the  
topic. Papert also helped create Logo, a programming language used to  
teach computer science.

We will keep you informed.

MLTI Project Team


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