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Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC, dead at 96
FREE! In his long and illustrious career as a mathematician and computer scientist, Thomas Eugene Kurtz achieved many things.
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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 ...