# Seymour Papert **Domain:** Artificial Intelligence / Learning / Computing Education **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Foundational ## Definition **Seymour Papert** was a mathematician, computer scientist and educator whose work joined artificial intelligence, theories of learning and computational construction. ## AI-History Context With [[wiki/Marvin Minsky|Marvin Minsky]], Papert authored _Perceptrons_ in 1969. The book's analysis of limitations in single-layer perceptrons became central to later accounts of the contraction in [[wiki/Connectionism|connectionist]] research, though the scale and geography of that effect remain historically disputed. ## Corpus Context [[articles/Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s|Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s]] uses the continuing work of Soviet and Japanese laboratories to distinguish one funding ecology from the global research program. ## See Also [[wiki/Artificial Neural Networks|Artificial Neural Networks]], [[wiki/AI Winter|AI Winter]]