Cross posted from our friend Aaron Rowe at Wired Science: Forty years ago, researchers developed a programming language that would become a brilliant educational tool. As I remember it, LOGO was a ...

[Prof. Marvin Minsky] is a very well-known figure in the field of computing, having co-founded the MIT AI lab, published extensively on AI and computational intelligence, and, let’s not forget, ...

Teaching kids to code at an early age might be a hot and sometimes hotly debated topic these days, but as early as the 60s, there were already some computer scientists and educators blazing that trail ...

It's difficult to overstate CU alumnus Alan Kay's influence on our modern digital landscape. Recruited to work at Xerox PARC the year it opened, he helped invent graphical user interfaces (GUIs), ...

Google wants to encourage more kids to learn how to write computer programs. Monday’s “doodle” — a special logo design placed on Google’s homepage — is the first one ever to feature a programmable ...

Seymour Papert, an emeritus professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who invented the influential Logo programming language, has been seriously injured in a traffic accident in Hanoi, ...