Andrea diSessa
Andrea diSessa | |
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| Born | June 3, 1947 |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (A.B.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Symmetry Groups, Representation Theory and Perturbations of Relativistic Universes (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Roman Jackiw |
Andrea A. diSessa (born June 3, 1947) is an education researcher and author of the book Turtle Geometry about Logo. He has also written highly cited research papers on the epistemology of physics, educational experimentation, and constructivist analysis of knowledge. He also created, with Hal Abelson, the Boxer Programming Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.