By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually ...

“We were thinking only of Dartmouth,” says Kurtz, its surviving co-creator ... someone would come up with a programming language aimed at beginners. But BASIC as it came to be was profoundly ...

Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's ...

He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s ... John McCarthy, the creator of the Lisp programming language and a pioneer in artificial intelligence, has died.

This was programming that achieved a neat midpoint between the mind of a human and that of the machine. This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history ...