As part of the deal to buy the GE 225 computer, Kemeny, Kurtz, and others had earlier built a time sharing operating system for General Electric. BASIC running on this operating system allowed ...

Thomas Kurtz, the Dartmouth professor who co-created the computer language BASIC and the networking system DTSS with John Kemeny, helping launch the computer revolution, has died. He was 96.

Horizon system code writers lacked basic programming skills, according to the task force set up to investigate reported problems with the controversial software.