[FRIAM] More on Seymour Papert

[Stephen Guerin]

Uri is a light lurker here on Friam. 

On behalf of the many here who've been strongly influenced by Dr. Papert's work,
we wish the best for Seymour and a speedy recovery.

-Steve

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Critchlow [mailto:rec at elf.org] 
> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 5:31 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: [FRIAM] More on Seymour Papert
> 
> This Boston Globe article 
> (http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/12/08/top_mit_
> scientist_injured_in_vietnam/ ) quotes Uri Wilensky the PI 
> for NetLogo:
> 
> 
> The accident occurred about 4 p.m. on Tuesday, as Papert and 
> Wilensky were leaving their hotel for a keynote address 
> Wilensky was about to deliver at the conference hosted by the 
> Hanoi University of Technology.
> 
> The two had just been talking about building a mathematical 
> model to describe Hanoi's notoriously chaotic streets, where 
> there are few traffic lights or stop signs and a stream of 
> speeding motorbikers.
> 
> "We were really amazed and frightened by the traffic," Wilensky said.
> 
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