Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College.That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran ...

Thomas E. Kurtz with an early computer at Dartmouth in the early 1960s. He worked to make computers more accessible to all students, not just those in technical fields — a novel idea at the time.

Turbo Pascal was initially released in 1983 for DOS and CP/M-based systems, injecting a breath of fresh air into the home computer programming market. While competing products ...