Technology Thomas Kurtz, Co-Creator of Computer Language Basic, Dies at 96

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Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic during the 1960s and helped make it the industry standard for programmers during the rise of personal computing, has died. He was 96.

He died on Nov. 12 at a hospice center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, according to a death notice in the Valley News newspaper that was confirmed by his wife, Agnes.

Basic — an acronym for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — was invented by John Kemeny, the chairman of Dartmouth’s math department, and Kurtz, one of his faculty members, as part of their push to open up the world of computing to a wide community. Kemeny, who would go on to serve as Dartmouth’s president, died in 1992.

Thomas Kurtz, Co-Creator of Computer Language Basic, Dies at 96

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic during the 1960s and helped make it the industry standard for programmers during the rise of personal computing, has died. He was 96.

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Thomas Kurtz, Co-Creator of Computer Language Basic, Dies at 96

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic during the 1960s and helped make it the industry standard for programmers during the rise of personal computing, has died. He was 96.

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Applesoft Basic was my first programming language. Read the manual and learned it.Opened up a doorway.