On this day in 1926 computer scientist, educator and pioneer John G. Kemeny was born. Kemeny is best known for developing the BASIC programming language as well as one of the world’s first time-sharing systems alongside Thomas Kurtz in 1964. BASIC was created for Kemeny’s computer students in Dartmouth, and he and Kurtz were awarded by the American Federation of Information Processing Societies for their work.
Kemeny became the president of Dartmouth College in 1970 until 1981, and is considered a pioneer in the use of computers in college education and by ordinary people.
John G. Kemeny – Image taken from Wikipedia