It’s with sadness that we note the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s, and though his creation may not receive the ...

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a more affordable basic communication device to assist nonverbal individuals and their caregivers," said an inventor, from El Paso, Texas, ...

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 ...

The mathematician not only co-developed BASIC, but also the first system that allowed several people to work on the same computer at the same time. Born in 1928, Kurtz later completed his doctorate at ...