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Thomas E. Kurtz

American computer scientist and educator

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born: 1928
died: 2024
age at death: 96
known for: computer scientist, mathematician, statistician

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Thomas Eugene Kurtz was an American computer scientist and educator. A Dartmouth professor of mathematics, he and colleague John G. Kemeny are best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language and the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1963 and 1964. These innovations made computing more accessible by simplifying programming for non-experts and allowing multiple users to share a single computer, transforming how computers were used in education and research.

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