Back طوماس يوجين كيرتز Arabic Thomas Eugene Kurtz Czech Thomas E. Kurtz German Thomas Eugene Kurtz Spanish توماس یوجین کورتز Persian Thomas Eugene Kurtz French Thomas Eugene Kurtz Galician Thomas Eugene Kurtz Italian トーマス・E・カーツ Japanese 토마스 E. 커츠 Korean
Thomas E. Kurtz | |
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 Kurtz, c. 1970s | |
| Born | Thomas Eugene Kurtz February 22, 1928 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | November 12, 2024 (aged 96) Lebanon, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Education | Knox College (BA)[1] Princeton University (PhD) |
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| Spouses | Patricia Barr
(m. 1953; div. 1973)Agnes Seelye Bixler (m. 1974) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | 1974 AFIPS Pioneer Award 1991 IEEE Computer Science Pioneer Award |
Thomas Eugene Kurtz (February 22, 1928 – November 12, 2024) 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.
For his role in creating BASIC, the IEEE honored Kurtz in 1991 with the Computer Pioneer Award,[2] and in 1994, he was inducted as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[3]
- ^ "Thomas E. Kurtz". IEEE Computer Society. 1995. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
- ^ "Thomas E. Kurtz". IEEE Computer Society. April 27, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
- ^ "ACM Fellows Award". Fellows.acm.org. Archived from the original on January 21, 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2010.