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Seymour Papert badly injured

[Posted December 8, 2006 by corbet]

Seymour Papert, a long-time AI researcher and one of the inspirations behind the One Laptop Per Child program, has been hit by a motorcycle and badly injured in Vietnam. This Boston.com story has some more information. Best wishes.

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No news likely for a while

Posted Dec 12, 2006 2:57 UTC (Tue) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link]

11:37' 11/12/2006 (GMT+7)
VietNamNet tried to talk with Ben Wilkinson, a close friend to Professor Seymour Papert. However, Mr Wilkinson declined to reveal anything about the current status of Professor Papert, as the members of professor’s family do not want to make public the information.

I can find nothing more recent on Google News (as of 11 December 2006, 21:50 GMT-5)

No news likely for a while

Posted Dec 27, 2006 17:52 UTC (Wed) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link]

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?arti...

Apparently he is "in a stable condition in the intensive care unit ever since" (he was airlifted to the United States on Dec. 18)