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The Learning and Computing Collection contains an extensive body of resources related to the community of people who pioneered the exploration of the intersections of computational media and mind (primarily at MIT). 1
Robert Lawler
The New Media Museum’s collections include many resources related to M. E. Hopper’s collaborations with her doctoral adviser Robert W. Lawler. In addition, there are many resources related to his doctoral advisers Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert.
Robert W. Lawler (Learning and Computing)
Learning and Computing (Robert W. Lawler)
Natural Learning Case Study Archives (Robert W. Lawler)
Mentors: Like Unforgetable Melodies, Colleagues Linger in the Mind (Robert Lawler, NLCSA)
Marvin Minsky
The New Media Museum holds personal communication between M. E. Hopper and Marvin Minsky about the Web based version of The Society of Mind that Hopper created for him. The collection also includes the functioning Web based version made in 1995.
Marvin (M. E. Hopper, NEW Computer Museum)
Marvin Minsky at Purdue (Robert W. Lawler, Natural Learning Case Study Archives)
A Framework for Representing Knowledge (Marvin Minsky, MIT-AI Laboratory Memo 306)
In Memory: Marvin Minsky (MIT Media Lab)
Marvin Minsky (Media Lab)
Marvin Minsky (ACM Turing Award)
Marvin Minksy (Wikipedia)
The Society of Mind (Marvin Minsky, MIT Press)
The Society of Mind Course (Marvin Minsky, MIT OpenCourseware)
Society of Mind (Wikipedia)
Seymour Papert
The New Media Museum has many copies of Seymour Papert’s works.
Seymour (M. E. Hopper, NEW Computer Museum)
On Papert (Robert W. Lawler, Natural Learning Case Study Archives)
Seymour Papert at Purdue (Robert W. Lawler, Natural Learning Case Study Archives)
In Memory: Seymour Papert (MIT Media Lab)
Thinking about Thinking about Seymour (MIT Media Lab)
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (Seymour Papert, MIT Media Lab)
Gears of my Childhood (Seymour Papert, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas)
Micro Worlds: Transforming Education (Seymour Papert)
Uses of Technology to Enhance Education (Seymour Papert, DSpace@MIT)
Seymour Papert (MIT Media Lab)
Seymour Papert (Computer History Museum)
Seymour Papert (MIT Museum)
Seymour Papert Personal Archives (MIT ArchivesSpace)
Seymour Papert (Wikipedia)
Logo
The New Media Museum has a comprehensive collection of Logo.
LogoThings (Cynthia Solomon)
Logo Foundation
Seymour Papert: On Logo (Logo Foundation) [Video Series]
Logo Tree Project (P. Boytchev)
Emerging Research on K-12 Computer Science Education: Block- or text-based programming environments? (Benjamin Herold, Ed Week)
Here is just a small sample of what is in the Logo collection.
Commodore
MSX
Terrapin
Valiant
LCSI
Texas Instruments
Sprite LOGO
LEGO
LEGO Technic circa 1986
RoboLab
Crickets
StickBots
XO & Etoys
Bookshelf
These are some of the most relevant books in the collection. More…
Collection Notes
1 The majority of artifacts were acquired as a result of Mary Hopper’s academic work with her doctoral adviser Robert Lawler at Purdue University and her later work at MIT and Lesley University. In addition, through donations from Lawler, there are unique resources related to his friends and advisers (Oliver Selfridge, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert). Finally, the collection includes many dialects of the Logo Programming Language and related materials (see also the New Media Museum’s closely related Ed-Bots Collection).
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