Mechanical computing platforms could operate where it isn't possible to use silicon chips.

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.

Microsoft has released the source code for its 6502-based BASIC interpreter—BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor Version 1.1—under the MIT licence, inviting developers, historians and retro-enthusiasts to ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming language known as BASIC, which allowed students to easily operate early ...