Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...
Wired

Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing

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 ...
Princeton University

'Learning to see and learning to read': Artificial intelligence enters a new era

For artificial intelligence to realize its potential — to relieve humans from mundane tasks, make life easier, and eventually invent entirely new solutions to our problems — computers will need to ...
Concord Monitor

Thomas Kurtz, Dartmouth co-creator of computer language BASIC, has died

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Some elite AI researchers say language is limiting. Here's the new kind of model they are building instead.

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AI slop is quietly wrecking the future of computer science

Computer science has long operated on a foundation of trust: researchers publish findings, peers verify them, and the field ...
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Top 10 most famous computer programmers of all time

For computer programs and mobile applications, programmers must develop code. In order to keep things working properly, they are also involved in maintaining, debugging and troubleshooting software ...