[FRIAM] Seymour Papert Gravely Injured in Motorbike Accident (fwd)

[Richard Lowenberg]

>From Andy Carvin:

Hi everyone,

I've just received the terrible news that education
technology pioneer Seymour Papert has been gravely
injured in an accident in Hanoi. He was attending a
conference there and was hit by a motorbike,
sustaining significant head trauma.

The boston globe has a story here:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/07/mit_figure_struck_injured_in_hanoi/

and I've blogged about it here:

http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/12/prayers_for_seymour_papert.html

Seymour is one of the developers of constructionist
learning theory. He helped found MIT's artificial
intelligence lab, developed the LOGO programming
language and inspired both the Maine laptop initiative
and the $100 laptop.

Hopefully he will pull through, but he will need all
the thoughts and prayers we can muster.

andy


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Andy Carvin
andycarvin at yahoo  com
www.andycarvin.com
www.pbs.org/learningnow
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