John G. Kemeny
John G. Kemeny · Technology & Engineering
Co-invented the BASIC programming language.
1926, Budapest, Hungary — 1992, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Budapest and the United States (Dartmouth College)
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John G. Kemeny was a Hungarian-born Jewish mathematician and computer scientist who emigrated to the United States as a teenager to escape Nazi persecution. With Thomas Kurtz he co-invented the BASIC programming language in 1964, making computing accessible to ordinary people. As president of Dartmouth College he also championed time-sharing computing and chaired the inquiry into the Three Mile Island accident.
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Co-invented the BASIC programming language.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Kemeny
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