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 ...

Sure, it may not have the sophisticated robotics or even fancy graphics of today's tools, but the Logo programming language has been the first blush with programming of those who would eventually ...

In 1967, the Logo programming language launched, aimed at teaching kids how to move a triangle “turtle” around to draw lines on a screen.

If your school in the 1980s was lucky enough to have a well-equipped computer lab, the chances are that alongside the 8-bit machines you might have found a little two-wheeled robot. These machines ...

Seymour Papert, one of the creators of the Logo programming language and a significant influence behind ‘One Laptop Per Child’ and ‘Lego Mindstorms’, has died.

Seymour Papert, an emeritus professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who invented the influential Logo programming language, has been seriously injured in a traffic accident in Hanoi ...

A method for creating graphic images in the Logo programming language. The "turtle" is an imaginary pen that is given drawing commands, such as go forward and turn right. On screen, the turtle is ...