Thomas Eugene Kurtz, cofounder of True BASIC, Inc., was a professor of mathematics and computer science at Dartmouth College for thirty-seven years. During that time, he and John G. Kemeny, with whom he collaborated on many projects, designed and...

1928- American mathematician who received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1956. He was cofounder with John Kemeny of the computer programming language BASIC (beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code), the first common programming language...

1928- American software engineer who, with John Kemeny, developed the computer language BASIC, an easy-to-learn language initially designed as a teaching tool for programming novices at Dartmouth College. Kurtz once commented that if FORTRAN was the...

Thomas Eugene Kurtz (born February 22, 1928) is an American computer scientist who co-developed the BASIC programming language in 1963/64 together with John George Kemeny. In 1951, Dr. Kurtz’s first experience with computing came at the Summer Session...

Jane P. Kurtz February 5, 2004 Jane Peterson Kurtz died unexpectedly, but peacefully, of natural causes shortly after midnight, February 5, 2004, at her home in Seneca Hill, Volney. She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Dr. Kenneth Arthur Kurtz;...

For the last 16 years, much of black America has had conflicting emotions about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. On one hand, having a black judge on the nation's highest court should evoke feelings of pride and accomplishment for the entire race. ...