Huawei Technologies is set to open-source its self-developed programming language, Cangjie, marking the latest step in the company’s pursuit of technological self-sufficiency. First unveiled a ...

At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC interpreter was launched on a mainframe computer at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The BASIC programming language, developed by ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, co-pioneer of the BASIC programming language, dies at 96. In the 1960s, he and John Kemeny developed BASIC and the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, transforming computer access and ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a mathematician and inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to operate early computers and eventually propelled generations ...