Question

In an essay, this thinker noted that their childhood obsession with gears, especially differential gears, was more helpful for learning math than anything taught in elementary school. In an essay in Game Developer magazine, this thinker savaged educational software for not understanding that kids find video games fun because they are hard. Along with Cynthia Solomon and Wally Feurzeig, this person developed the turtle graphics language Logo. This is the alphabetically later of the two people who indirectly (-5[1])caused a 70s AI winter by proving (15[1])that certain neural networks can’t (-5[1])learn the XOR (-5[1])function. This man worked with Lego to create a kit with programmable sensors, which is named after his book arguing for computer literacy in children. (*) Marvin Minsky and this man wrote the book Perceptrons. For 10 points, name this MIT researcher who presented his vision of computer-integrated education in Mindstorms. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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