With a $750,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, researchers from the University of Chicago’s Knowledge Lab and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Psychology will tackle these ...

What Is Computer Programming? Computer programming is a high-tech field that’s growing in popularity. Programmers work on code to find and solve issues.

COBOL, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language, is a computer programming language that was developed back in 1959, according to the National Museum of American History.

Code is the foundation of computing. Whether you are using a social media app on your smartphone or working with a cloud server’s API, the task relies heavily on a programming language. What you may ...

BASIC, a computer coding language designed by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas in 1963, was initially invented to more easily teach programming to undergraduates, reports ThoughtCo. “BASIC was ...

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, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually propelled generations ...

Amy Ko developed the computer programming language Wordplay to equalize the playing field for would-be coders. Credit: Doug Parry. I had many exciting plans for the end of my sabbatical year.

Long before the days of laptops and smartphones, Thomas E. Kurtz worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. Kurtz has died at 96.