Daily Papert curator, Gary Stager, was invited to write the official obituary for Dr. Papert in the 15 September 2016 issue of prestigious journal, Science.
You may read the article here. PDF here.
The following is a collection of obituaries and press pieces about Seymour Papert, following his death. Thanks to Paulo Blikstein for collecting many of these links.
The Forward obituary includes fascinating information about Papert’s life as an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa.
- MIT: https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/tribute-seymour-papert
- Children’s Technology Review: http://childrenstech.com/blog/archives/17504 (By Gary Stager)
- 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
- Sherry Turkle – Remembering Seymour Papert
- 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.html
- ACM: 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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alsfSTVn2es
- Nature Magazine – http://rdcu.be/kkOj (PDF)
- La Nación http://www.nacion.com/opinion/foros/Seymour-Papert-in-memoriam_0_1577442246.html