Hal Abelson (Co-Author of SICP) InfiniteHistoryProject MIT (2011) [video]

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so-cal-schemer · 6h ago

MIT Professor Harold Abelson (and co-author of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs w/ Gerald Jay Sussman) talks about his personal history growing up on a NJ farm, struggles with math, attending Princeton, culture at Vietnam war era MIT compared to ~today, his chance meeting with Seymour Papert and how it guided his career at MIT including writing and teaching 6.001/SICP (and why they stopped teaching the course), and his involvement in the Logo language, OpenCourseWare, and Creative Commons.

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Hal Abelson (Co-Author of SICP) InfiniteHistoryProject MIT (2011) [video]

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