Editing Seymour Papert (section)

==Personal life==
Papert became a political and anti-apartheid activist early in his life in South Africa. He subsequently chose self exile.<ref name="forward.com"/> He was a leading figure in the [[Revolutionary socialism|revolutionary socialist]] circle around ''[[Socialist Review]]'' while living in London in the 1950s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jim Higgins: More Years for the Locust (1997) |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/higgins/1997/locust/index.htm |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=marxists.org}}</ref> Papert was also a prominent activist against South African [[apartheid]] policies during his university education.<ref name="MITobit" />

Papert was married to [[Dona Strauss]], and later to [[Androula Henriques|Androula Christofides Henriques]].<ref name="MITobit" />

Papert's third wife was MIT professor [[Sherry Turkle]], and together they wrote the influential paper "Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete".<ref>{{cite journal| title = Epistemological Pluralism and Revaluation of the Concrete| last = Turkle| first = Sherry|author2=Papert, Seymour | year = 1992| journal = Journal of Mathematical Behavior| volume = 11| issue = 1 }}</ref>

In his final 24 years, Papert was married to [[Suzanne Massie]], who was a Russian scholar and author of ''Pavlovsk: The Life of a Russian Palace'' and ''Land of the Firebird''.<ref name="MITobit" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Author Suzanne Massie biography |url=http://www.suzannemassie.com/bio.html |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=suzannemassie.com}}</ref>

===Accident in Hanoi===
Papert (then aged 78), received a serious [[Traumatic brain injury|brain injury]] when struck by a [[motor scooter]]<ref name="MITobit" /> on 5 December 2006 while crossing the street with colleague Uri Wilensky when they were both attending the 17th [[International Commission on Mathematical Instruction]] (ICMI) Study conference in [[Hanoi]], Vietnam.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.informationweek.com/artificial-intelligence-pioneer-seymour-papert-in-coma-in-hanoi/d/d-id/1049664?|title=Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Seymour Papert in Coma in Hanoi|work=InformationWeek|date=8 December 2006|access-date=14 March 2016}}</ref> He underwent emergency [[brain surgery|surgery]] to remove a [[blood clot]] at the [[L'Hôpital Français De Hanoï|French Hospital of Hanoi]] before being transferred in a complex operation by Swiss Air Ambulance [https://www.rega.ch/en/operations.aspx (REGA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727171020/https://www.rega.ch/en/operations.aspx |date=27 July 2019 }}) [[Bombardier Challenger]] Jet<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seymour Papert&nbsp;– Informatika&nbsp;– 3065&nbsp;– p2k.unkris.ac.id |url=http://p2k.unkris.ac.id/IT/3065-2962/Seymour-Papert_14321_p2k-unkris.html |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=p2k.unkris.ac.id}}</ref> to [[Boston]], Massachusetts, where he spent approximately four weeks in intensive care.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-09-05 |title=Seymour Papert |newspaper=[[The Times]] |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/seymour-papert-q0r3k0jpz |access-date=2023-09-05 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-01-10 |title=1969&nbsp;– The Logo Turtle&nbsp;– Seymour Papert et al (Sth African/American) |url=http://cyberneticzoo.com/cyberneticanimals/1969-the-logo-turtle-seymour-papert-marvin-minsky-et-al-american/ |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=cyberneticzoo.com |language=en-US}}</ref> He was moved to a hospital closer to his home in January 2007, but then developed [[sepsis]] which damaged a heart valve, which was later replaced.

By 2008 he had returned home, could think and communicate clearly and walk "almost unaided", but still had "some complicated speech problems" and was in receipt of extensive rehabilitation support.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-03-10 |title=Welcome to The Learning Barn ~ The Official Seymour Papert Website! |url=http://www.thelearningbarn.org/ |access-date=2023-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080310185021/http://www.thelearningbarn.org/ |archive-date=10 March 2008 }}</ref> His rehabilitation team used some of the very principles of experiential, hands-on learning that he had pioneered.<ref>{{cite news |first=Linda |last=Matchan |title=In search of a beautiful mind |url=http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2008/07/12/in_search_of_a_beautiful_mind/ |work=Boston Globe |date=12 July 2008 |access-date=16 July 2008 }}</ref>

Papert died at his home in Blue Hill, Maine, on 31 July 2016.<ref name="MITobit"/>