(Bloomberg) -- 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 ...

A version of the BASIC programming language derived from the original Dartmouth BASIC created by Kemeny and Kurtz. First developed by MAI Systems Corporation, it evolved into the BBx (Business ...

From pioneering BASIC in the 1960s to the launch of Dartmouth Chat, the College has always been at the forefront of ...