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 ...

And the thing that made it possible was a programming language called BASIC. John Kemeny shows off his vanity license plate in 1967Adrian N. Bouchard / Dartmouth College Invented by John G.