Cynthia Solomon (1938 - ) is a computer scientist known for her pioneering work in educational computing. While working with the research and development company Bolt, Beranek and Newman and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the 1960s, Solomon played a key role in the development of Logo, the first computer programming language designed for learning.
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Solomon, C, Harvey, B, Kahn, K, Lieberman, H, Miller, M, Minsky, M, Papert, A & Silverman, B. (2020) History of Logo. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 4, HOPL, Article 79.
Silverman, B. (2020). History of logo. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 4 (HOPL), 1-66.
Solomon, C. (2024). LogoThings (website), accessed 2.2.24, https://logothings.github.io/logothings/
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