Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...
Texarkana Gazette

Thomas Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC computer language, dies at 96

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 intuitive ...
Newsweek

Viral Thread Shares Basic Computer Skills Users Were ‘Shocked’ Others Didn’t Know

Computers have been around for decades, but longevity hasn't resulted in everyone acquiring the basic set of computer knowledge. A Reddit thread discussing a lack of basic computer skills that ...
The New York Times

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.