[Informatics] Seymour Papert

Tue Aug 30 08:43:10 AEST 2016

Hi Roland, Ken and others -

Paul Wexelblat reached out to me on the weekend. He provided me with some further information about how Logo was developed at BBN in Cambridge, MA.  For those interested – his email is written below (and he is happy for me to share this):

"Just a couple of facts (as I may be the last surviving participant of the Logo project). 🙂 Logo was developed at BBN, in Cambridge, MA -- you know, BBN, the folks who brought you The Internet. The prime mover was Wally Feurzeig who had contract for the development, and Marvin was a consultant on the project. Seymour joined soon after the work was started. These three came up with the design for Logo; the first implementation was as a LISP program on one of the BBN PDP-1 computers, later implemented in assembly language on another BBN PDP-1 (all work done by BBN programmers). The first use of Logo in a school was under another BBN Gov't contract with Wally as prime investigator. One day, the three of them came into my office and described the idea of a turtle and asked if I could build a wireless Turtle and modify Logo to handle the commands. I did this.
All that was to let you know that up to this point Logo and the Turtle were developed/invented/programmed and run completely at BBN with Wally as the prime mover.
After all this was done (concept proven and a bunch of other buzzwords) BBN stepped back and the MIT folks took the developed product and continues (doing wonderful stuff IMO) - But I hate to see the creative work done by us at BBN forgotten."

Anyway- after reading with interest - I wanted to know more about Paul and it led to this website. - http://cyberneticzoo.com/tag/paul-wexelblat/

Ken – there is reference and a section devoted to the “Logo Down Under” - the Tassie Turtle.

Happy reading :)

Cheers
Therese

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From: <informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au>> on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com<mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com>>
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Subject: Re: [Informatics] Seymour Papert

Ken, I found one at Melbourne Uni, took some digging around to find out what it was. Certainly worth celebrating :-)

The original link to this document by the Tasman Turtle inventor, Alan Branch is broken but I kept a copy here
https://www.evernote.com/l/AB_a10wFMyhKmKzE_tYx-HJ4tvQb9RdXabk

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On 28 Aug 2016, at 9:42 PM, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com<mailto:kenjprice at gmail.com>> wrote:

The original Tasman Turtle was designed here in Tasmania and exported around the world.

Here's some info http://www.southcom.com.au/~robot/history.html
And some resources if you've got one to restore https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5PVarmqxaOnWXVlZlJFNU5Mem8/view

Ken

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Robert Hind <robert at yinnar.com<mailto:robert at yinnar.com>> wrote:
Who else remembers the original turtle that moved around on the classroom floor?

Robert Hind
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
Retired

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Subject: [Informatics] Seymour Papert

Dear colleagues

Therese Keane, Swinburne University, has co-authored an article published in The Conversation, that might be of interest about Seymour Papert – enjoy the read.

http://theconversation.com/this-little-known-pioneering-educator-put-coding-in-the-classroom-63971
Regards
Paula

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