Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it ...

Business Nation & World Obituaries Technology Thomas E. Kurtz, a creator of BASIC computer language, dies at 96 Nov. 20, 2024 at 7:15 am Updated Nov. 20, 2024 at 8:15 am By Kenneth R. Rosen ...

Within a few years, BASIC became a standard part of college curriculum across numerous fields of study. Its intuitive nature also fueled the rise of home computing in the 70s and 80s.

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 ...

In this video, or, rather, this film, now rendered in digital form after an unknowable sequence of transfers that surely involved video recording and/or transmission, we learn the basic computing ...

Thomas Kurtz, the Dartmouth professor who co-created the computer language BASIC and the networking system DTSS with John Kemeny, helping launch the computer revolution, has died. He was 96.

It was 1977, the same year that the Apple II, Commodore Pet, and TRS-80 all hit the market. Those machines led to an explosion in home computing and the proliferation of the BASIC computing language.

In March 1959, Hawes proposed that a new computer language be created. It would have an English-like vocabulary that could be used across different computers to perform basic business tasks.