That changed 50 years ago today with the introduction of BASIC, a computer language that was created ... has died down since the introduction of Windows, many hobbyists keep it alive.

Kurtz said the carping about Basic among computer professionals ... Pascal supplanted Basic as the go-to language for ...

In the past, Kemeny and Kurtz had made two unsuccessful stabs at creating computer languages ... in which classic BASIC flourished. But even though the company introduced a Windows version of ...

It wasn't the first popular language ... you're not running Windows today. At about the same time, Steve Wozniak was working on porting BASIC to the first Apple computer, the Apple I.

Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC ... languages come in. In the same year, Kemeny applied for a National Science Foundation grant to bring a GE-225 ...

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 ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...