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 ...

In 1967, the Logo programming language launched, aimed at teaching kids how to move a triangle “turtle” around to draw lines on a screen.

Seymour Papert, one of the creators of the Logo programming language and a significant influence behind One Laptop Per Child and Lego Mindstorms, died Sunday at home in Maine. He was 88.