Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

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 ...

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.

Mathematician Grace Hopper, who earned a PhD at Yale and later became a US Navy rear admiral, pioneered compilers and helped ...