# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seymour-papert
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:02:20.985Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seymour-papert"
name: "Seymour Papert"
slug: "seymour-papert"
description: "Seymour Aubrey Papert was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the constructionist movement in education. He was co-inventor, with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon, of the Logo programming language."
tagline: "MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator (1928–2016)"
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category:
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birthDate: "1928-02-29"
deathDate: "2016-07-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  247
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump