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Co-Inventor of BASIC Thomas Kurtz Dies at 96
Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co creator of the BASIC programming language, died November 12 at a hospice center in Lebanon New Hampshire at age 96. He and John G Kemeny popularized computing for novices at Dartmouth starting in 1964, pioneering time sharing and an easy to learn language that influenced Bill Gates and the PC era.
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Thomas E. Kurtz
Lebanon
New Hampshire
Aggie Kurtz
Kurtz
Dartmouth College
John G. Kemeny
Kemeny
Dartmouth
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NPR
Computer History Museum
Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Oak Park
Illinois
Lions Clubs International
Knox College
Galesburg
Princeton University
Albert Einstein
Institute For Advanced Study
Princeton
New Jersey
Hanover
Patricia Barr
Agnes Seelye Bixler
Daniel Kurtz
Timothy Kurtz
Beth Mazyck
Bill Gates
Microsoft
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