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...