B.F. Skinner, teaching machines

Burrhus F. Skinner studied at Harvard and taught there from 1931- 36 and from 1947- 74 with the time between at the University of Minnesota. A leading behaviorist, he was a proponent of operant conditioning and programmed instruction. His main scientific works include The Behavior of Organisms (1938), and Verbal Behavior (1957). His social and political views reached a wider public through Walden Two and Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971)

Interesting sites of Skinner

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhskin.html

http://www.bfskinner.org/bio.asp

http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~allanr/biblio.html