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 ...

Google celebrated the 50th anniversary of Logo, the world’s first programming language designed for kids, on Monday with a Doodle that celebrates kids coding languages and is aimed at teaching ...

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, ...

It's difficult to overstate CU alumnus Alan Kay's influence on our modern digital landscape. Recruited to work at Xerox PARC the year it opened, he helped invent graphical user interfaces (GUIs), ...

Google wants to encourage more kids to learn how to write computer programs. Monday’s “doodle” — a special logo design placed on Google’s homepage — is the first one ever to feature a programmable ...