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John George Kemeny (born Kemény János György; May 31, 1926 – December 26, 1992) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas E. Kurtz.
May 27, 2024 · John Kemeny was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and computer scientist. He emigrated to the U.S. with his family at age 14. He took a year off from his undergraduate studies at Princeton University to work on the Manhattan Project and was later a research assistant to Albert Einstein.
John G. Kemeny, co-inventor of the computer language BASIC and of the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS) and advocate of universal education in programming died unexpectedly on December 26, 1992. He was 66 years old.
John George Kemeny. Born May 31, 1926, Budapest, Hungary; died December 26, 1992, Lebanon, N.H.; president of Dartmouth College, mathematician who was an assistant to Albert Einstein, chair of the Three Mile Island investigative committee, with Thomas Kurtz, invented the programming language BASIC.
Dec 27, 1992 · John G. Kemeny, a distinguished mathematician and computer pioneer who was president of Dartmouth College for more than a decade, died yesterday at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center...
John G. Kemeny was the chairman of the Dartmouth College Mathematics Department. Based largely on his reputation as an innovator in math teaching, in 1959 the College won an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award for $500,000 to build a new department building.
John Kemeny was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and computer scientist best known as the co-inventor of the BASIC computer language. View two larger pictures. Biography. John Kemeny's mother was Lucy Fried and his father was Tibor Kemeny who worked as an import-export wholesaler. John attended primary school in Budapest.
John Kemeny will be remembered for his contributions to computing and mathematics education, and also for the sweeping changes he brought to Dartmouth during his eleven years as president of this prestigious Ivy League college.
Co-inventor of BASIC. Einstein’s mathematical assistant. Leader and innovator in mathematics education. “ By all means mathematicians should learn all the pure mathematics they want. But they must also learn applications. Get to be an expert in either the social sciences or in computer science. ” (John Kemeny)
John George Kemeny (1926–1992), was a Hungarian-American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas Eugene Kurtz.
