LOGO (Computer program language)

Abstract This collection comprises subject files compiled by Harold "Hal" Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His field of interest is educational computing and applications of symbolic and numerical computing to science and engineering. Materials in this collection, spanning from approximately 1962 to 2004, are arranged alphabetically. Subject files primarily consist of correspondence, proposals,...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains the administrative files of Benson R. Snyder, who gathered or created the records of three successive organizations: the Science Teaching Center (STC), the Education Research Center (ERC), and the Division for Study and Research in Education (DSRE). Files include correspondence and reports on the changes in the MIT curriculum; funding for research projects; development of educational uses for computer software, especially LOGO computer programming language; and the...

Scope and Contents Proposals, course descriptions, teaching notes, UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) project descriptions, information about student exhibits, and copies of Preusser's writings trace the development of the visual arts program at MIT. The collection also contains glass and 35-mm slides of Preusser's visual design projects. Preusser was co-editor of the art journal Leonardo from 1974 to 1990, and correspondence related to this and his other...