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John Kemeny died at the age of 66, the result of heart failure in Lebanon, New Hampshire [2] on December 26, 1992. [4] He had lived in Etna , near the Dartmouth Campus. See also
Dec 26, 1992 · Budapest, Hungary. Died. 26 December 1992. Etna, New Hampshire, USA. Summary. John Kemeny was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and computer scientist best known as the co-inventor of the BASIC computer language. View two larger pictures. Biography.
John Kemeny (born May 31, 1926, Budapest, Hungary—died December 26, 1992, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and computer scientist. He emigrated to the U.S. with his family at age 14.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sadly, an important pioneer of the computer revolution has died. John G. Kemeny, co-inventor of the computer language BASIC and of the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS) and advocate of universal education in programming died unexpectedly on December 26, 1992.
John Kemeny will be remembered for his contributions to computing and mathematics education, and also for the sweeping changes he brought to Dartmouth during his eleven years as president of this prestigious Ivy League college.
May 1, 1993 · John George Kemeny. Born May 31, 1926, Budapest, Hungary; died December 26, 1992, Lebanon, N.H.; president of Dartmouth College, mathematician who was an assistant to Albert Einstein, chair of the Three Mile Island investigative committee, with Thomas Kurtz, invented the programming language BASIC. Education: BA, mathematics, Princeton ...
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Dec 27, 1992 · John G. Kemeny, a distinguished mathematician and computer pioneer who was president of Dartmouth College for more than a decade, died yesterday at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in...
