Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G.

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive ...

HANOVER — On Wednesday, Dartmouth College is celebrating the 50th anniversary of BASIC, a computer language created at Dartmouth that has gone on to become the world’s most widely-used computer ...

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation has installed a historical marker near the Hanover town line on Route 120 to mark the invention of the BASIC computer language at Dartmouth College in ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...

In the early days of personal computing, back in the late '70s, I received for Christmas one of the very first home computers: Radio Shack's TRS-80, affectionately known as a "Trash 80." I spent many ...

A Munich-based linguist has, at least temporarily, thwarted efforts by Microsoft and other firms to prod the European Parliament to smooth the way toward software patents, according to a report in the ...

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Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

A new technology developed by scientists at IBM could bring the promise of personalized medicine one step closer to reality. Using a basic computer language, the researchers created a "smart" DNA ...

The committee is soliciting opinions from teachers, parents, students, social workers and education experts on designing a ...