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Thomas Eugene Kurtz (born February 22, 1928) is a retired Dartmouth professor of mathematics and computer scientist, who along with his colleague John G. Kemeny set in motion the then revolutionary concept of making computers as freely available to college students as library books were, by implementing the concept of time-sharing at Dartmouth ...
Jun 14, 2024 · Thomas Eugene Kurtz is an American mathematician, computer scientist and co-inventor, with John Kemeny, of the BASIC programming language and Dartmouth Timesharing System. In the early days of academic computing in the 1960s, there were no simple non-professional programming languages available for undergraduates.
To make programming accessible to a wider range of people, Dartmouth College mathematicians and computer scientists Thomas E. Kurtz and John G. Kemeny invented BASIC (Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), a general-purpose, high-level programming language designed for ease of use.
The acronym BASIC comes from the name of an unpublished paper by Thomas Kurtz. The new language was heavily patterned on FORTRAN II; statements were one-to-a-line, numbers were used to indicate the target of loops and branches, and many of the commands were similar or identical to Fortran.
Apr 29, 2014 · Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully used to run programs on the school’s General Electric computer system...
Thomas E. Kurtz. Born February 22, 1928, Oak Park, Ill.; with John Kemeny, developer of the programming language and system BASIC. Education: BA, Knox College, 1950; PhD, mathematics/statistics, Princeton University, 1956. Professional Experience: Dartmouth College: instructor, mathematics, 1956-1958, assistant professor, 1958-1963, associate ...
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Thomas Eugene Kurtz (born 22 February 22 1928) was a Dartmouth professor of mathematics and a computer scientist, who, along with his colleague John G. Kemeny, set in motion the then revolutionary concept of making computers as freely available to college students as library books were, by implementing the concept of time-sharing at Dartmouth ...
