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 ...

If you want a basic set of computer speakers, these will serve adequately—but you can do better. Amazon Basics Computer Speakers are indeed basic. That hasn’t changed from when we initially reviewed ...

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 ...

Thomas Kurtz, the Dartmouth professor who co-created the computer language BASIC and the networking system DTSS with John Kemeny, helping launch the computer revolution, has died. He was 96. Kurtz was ...

New Hampshire has installed what appears to be the first historical highway marker honoring computer programming, according to the Concord Monitor. The new sign honors BASIC, Beginner’s All-purpose ...

Does the complexity of modern computing ever get you down? Do you find yourself longing for the old days, where you could actually understand what your desktop machine’s hardware and software was ...