Argentinian
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Canadian
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computer scientist and educational software designer. She is known for developing programming environments for children, most notably contributing to the design of the
Scratch programming language
Scratch is a high-level block-based visual programming language and website aimed primarily at children as an educational tool for programming, with a target audience of ages 8 to 16. Users on the site, called Scratchers, can create projec ...
before it was even called Scratch. She co-founded the Playful Invention Company, a spin-off from the
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the School of Architecture. Its research does not restrict to fixed academic disciplines, but draws from ...
noted for developing the
Programmable Cricket
Programmable Crickets, known commercially as PicoCrickets, are robotic toys in the form of programmable bricks. They are used to construct artistic projects.
Crickets were developed at MIT Media Lab, and were launched commercially in Montreal in ...
, with
Mitchel Resnick
Mitchel Resnick (born June 12, 1956) is Lego Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. , Resnick serves as h ...
and
Brian Silverman
Brian Silverman is a Canadian computer scientist, the creator of many programming environments for children,PicoCricket - Invention Kit That Integrates Art and Technology. PicoCricket - Invention Kit That Integrates Art and Technology. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 July 2013. She was also the design director for several award-winning software products for children, including MicroWorlds and the "My Make Believe" series of products from Logo Computer Systems, Inc. She has a degree in computer science and a graduate degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.