One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence and an inventor of the Logo programming language, Papert was among the most influential thinkers in education and computing. At MIT, he created the Epistemology and Learning Research Group at the MIT Architecture Machine Group, which later became the MIT Media Lab. There, he developed an original and highly influential theory on learning called constructionism, built upon the work of Jean Piaget in Constructivism learning theories. Papert worked with Jean Piaget during the 1960s and was widely considered the most brilliant and successful of Piaget's protégés; Piaget once said that "no one understands my ideas as well as Papert."
Papert rethought how schools should work based on these theories of learning.
