The Genius Who Has To Learn To Be Himself Again

Seymour Papert, “who was a professor of mathematics, education, and media technology at MIT, has devoted much of his career to learning: self-learning (he taught himself Russian) and learning about learning. He was one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence, and he invented the computer language Logo to teach children about computers. Now he must learn something even more challenging – how to be Seymour Papert again.”