Seymour Papert was a South African-born American mathematician and computer scientist who spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence and made significant contributions to the field of educational technology. Parpert is best known as the co-inventor of Logo, a programming language he developed with Wally Feurzeig and Cynthia Solomon. Logo was designed with education in mind and became influential in teaching programming concepts to students. Beyond his work on Logo, Papert was a leading figure in the constructionist movement in education, an approach emphasizing learning through making and building. His ideas about how people learn through hands-on engagement with technology shaped educational practices and research for decades.