Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!ephraim From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) Subject: Re: LOGO for the Mac ? Message-ID: <1991Apr5.141148.3310@Think.COM> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA References: <57238@siemens.siemens.com> <40930@cup.portal.com> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 14:11:48 GMT In article <40930@cup.portal.com> gort@cup.portal.com (george d harrington) writes: >Actually, LOGO was invented by Seymour Papert at MIT. I believe he was >influenced by the ideas of Piaget. Papert also invented the LEGO construction >blocks. No, he didn't. He did, however, receive an endowment from the manufacturer of Lego blocks. There was extensive coverage in the papers here when the "Lego chair" was endowed. Someone even built Papert a chair out of Legos for the occasion. -- Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142 One of the flaws in the anarchic bopper society was the ease with which such crazed rumors could spread.