RIP Thomas E. Kurtz (1928 - 2024) - BASIC

[robphy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_E._Kurtz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC

https://faculty.dartmouth.edu/artsandsciences/news/2024/11/remembering-computing-legend-thomas-kurtz

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/technology/thomas-kurtz-dead.html
https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/15/basic-co-inventor-thomas-kurtz-has-passed-away/

https://developers.slashdot.org/sto...homas-e-kurtz-co-inventor-of-basic-dies-at-96

(2014) Birth of BASIC (Kurtz et al @ Dartmouth)

 

[jedishrfu]

We are losing all the great computer scientists even as the world is being overrun by AI agents.