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John G. Kemeny Dead

John G. Kemeny
KindPerson
Born1926
Died1992
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcedtss.dartmouth.edu ↗

Co-created BASIC at Dartmouth (1964) so every student — not just engineers — could program.

Created Dartmouth BASIC

Co-created BASIC (1964) and Dartmouth Time-Sharing — a mathematician (and Einstein's research assistant) who believed every student should program.\n\nLater Dartmouth president; led the commission investigating Three Mile Island.

Sources

  1. dtss.dartmouth.edu/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Kemeny