Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...

Thomas E Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early computers ...

He gave us Basic, a programming language that enabled millions to engage with technology. Thomas Eugene Kurtz, a pioneer in computer science whose vision of accessible computing transformed ...

Although computer programming has evolved in the years since Dr. Kurtz and Kemeny introduced their language, BASIC is "still very much alive" today, said Dag Spicer, a senior curator at the ...

Kurtz co-designed both DTSS and the BASIC language alongside his Dartmouth colleague ... Professor Kurtz was awarded the 1991 Computer Pioneer Award, and in 1994 was made a Fellow of the ACM. Kurtz ...

Despite grade school curriculums varying across the country, there are always commonalities. Everyone learns math, and ...