Cross posted from our friend Aaron Rowe at Wired Science: Forty years ago, researchers developed a programming language that would become a brilliant educational tool. As I remember it, LOGO was a ...

Forty years ago, researchers developed a programming language that would become a brilliant educational tool. As I remember it, LOGO was a triangular turtle that roamed across the monochrome screen of ...

Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

Seymour Papert, one of the creators of the Logo programming language and a significant influence behind One Laptop Per Child and Lego Mindstorms, died Sunday at home in Maine. He was 88. On Monday, ...

Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons, ...