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Sylvia Weir is a South African actress and singer who has been active in the entertainment industry since the 1940s. She is best known for her roles in the films The Longest Day (1962), The Guns of Navarone (1961), and The Man Who Never Was (1956). Weir was born on 1 July 1925 in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa. She began her career as a singer in the 1940s, performing in clubs and on the radio. She made her film debut in the 1951 film The Man Who Never Was. She went on to appear in a number of films, including The Longest Day (1962), The Guns of Navarone (1961), and The Man Who Never Was (1956). Weir has been married twice, first to actor and director John McCallum, and then to actor and director Robert Wise. She has two children, a son and a daughter. Weir is currently 93 years old and has an estimated net worth of $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her acting and singing career.

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Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 1 July, 1925
Birthday 1 July
Birthplace Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
Date of death (2018-10-13)
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Nationality South Africa

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1974

Weir was a medical resident in Scotland, joining the University of Edinburgh in 1974 as a researcher working on artificial intelligence. She moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 to work with Seymour Papert. Here she looked at initiatives to bring computers to education, particularly for exceptional children; the physically handicapped, autistic and those with specific learning disabilities. She was a pioneer in how robotics can be used for autism therapy. She demonstrated that the communication of a seven year old autistic child was catalysed by using a LOGO programmed remote control device. She worked with MIT and the Technical Education Research Centers. She looked at the Brookline LOGO Project, a computer based learning system for people with disabilities, and how children used it in elementary schools. From 1985 to 1986 she held weekly meetings to look at how young people could study fractions. She looked at how children with cerebral palsy could use computer based learning. One of the non-verbal students she helped went on to study at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She was a member of the Cerebral Palsy project, looking at how to maximise spatial and linguistic skills.

1950

Weir was born in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa. Her parents, Rachel Smith and Abraham Leiman, ran a shop. Weir studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, graduating with a degree in medicine in 1950. She was a resident in Coronation Hospital, specialising in internal medicine and paediatrics. She worked as a paediatrician in South Africa. She became an activist and protested against apartheid, and left South Africa for the UK.

1925

Sylvia Weir (1925–2018) was a paediatrician who worked on artificial intelligence. She pioneered the use of robotics in autism therapy.

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