A collection of obituaries and press pieces about Seymour Papert crowdsourced by Paulo Blikstein.
Facebook Crowdsourced collection: PAULO BLIKSTEIN·WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016
MIT: https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/tribute-seymour-papert
Children’s Tech: http://childrenstech.com/blog/archives/17504
EdSurge: https://www.edsurge.com/…/2016-08-03-a-glimpse-into-the-pla…
Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/…/AXOveg7s9z9gtT6hiS9…/story.html
NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/…/seymour-papert-88-dies-saw-educati…
MIT Media Lab: https://www.media.mit.edu/people/in-memory/papert
Forward: http://forward.com/…/remembering-seymour-papert-revolution…/
National Public Radio (NPR): Here is the NPR story on Seymour Papert (with audio) – http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/08/05/488669276/remembering-a-thinker-who-thought-about-thinking
WBUR: http://www.wbur.org/all-things-conside…/…/seymour-papert-mit
Lego Foundation: http://www.legofoundation.com/…/2016/honoring-seymour-papert
Conrad Wolfram: http://www.conradwolfram.com/home/2016/8/2/seymour-papert-1928-2016
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/aug/03/seymour-papert-obituary
Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/seymour-papert-mit-professor-who-connected-children-with-computers-dies-at-88/2016/08/03/59009d08-582a-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.htmlACM: http://m.cacm.acm.org/news/205495-in-memoriam-seymour-papert-1928-2016/fulltext
Bangor Daily News: http://bangordailynews.com/2016/08/04/education/seymour-papert-professor-credited-with-inspiring-maine-laptop-initiative-dies/
Mitchel Resnick @ Scratch Conference 2016 (starts around 31:00) http://webcast.mit.edu/sum2016/scratch/1631/index-d1.html
Nature Magazine
http://rdcu.be/kkOj
La Nación http://www.nacion.com/opinion/foros/Seymour-Papert-in-memoriam_0_1577442246.html