Thomas E. Kurtz
Abstract
Dartmouth College is a small university dating from 1769, and dedicated “... for the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing and all parts of learning... and also of English Youth and any others.” (Wheelock 1769.) The undergraduate student body (now nearly 4000) outnumbers all graduate students by more than 5 to 1, and majors predominantly in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (over 75 percent).
In 1940 a milestone event, not well remembered until recently (Loveday 1977), took place at Dartmouth. Dr. George Stibitz of the Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated publicly for the first time, at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, the remote use of a computer over a communications line. The computer was a relay calculator designed to carry out arithmetic on complex numbers. The terminal was a Model 26 Teletype.
- 1 ANSI (publication expected in 1978). American national standard programming language minimal BASIC, X3.60 - 1978. New York NY: American National Standards Institute.Google Scholar
- 2 Arms, W. Y. 1977. Graphics with SBASIC. (Unpublished memorandum). Hanover NH: Kiewit Computation Center.Google Scholar
- 3 Conway, R. W. and Maxwell, W. L. 1963. CORC—the Cornell computing language. CACM 6(6): 317-321. Google ScholarDigital Library
- 4 Corbato, F. J., Merwin-Daggett, M., and Daley, R. C. 1962. An experimental time sharing system. In AFIPS Conference Proceedings. Vol. 21. Palo Alto CA: National Press.Google Scholar
- 5 Dartmouth 1956. DARSIMCO. Hanover NH: Dartmouth College.Google Scholar
- 6 Dartmouth 1968. BASIC, 4th ed. Hanover NH: Dartmouth Publications.Google Scholar
- 7 Dartmouth 1969 February. BASIC, 4th ed. (supplement, version I). Hanover NH: Kiewit Computation Center.Google Scholar
- 8 Dartmouth 1969 April. BASIC, 4th ed. (supplement, version II). Hanover NH: Kiewit Computation Center.Google Scholar
- 9 Dartmouth 1970 September. BASIC, 5th ed. Hanover NH: Kiewit Computation Center.Google Scholar
- 10 Dartmouth 1972 July. The IMPRESS manual. Hanover NH: Project IMPRESS.Google Scholar
- 11 Garland, S. J. 1973. Dartmouth BASIC, a specification. Hanover NH: Kiewit Computation Center. TM028.Google Scholar
- 12 Garland, S. J. 1976. Structured programming, graphics, and SBASIC. Hanover NH: Kiewit Computation Center. SP028.Google Scholar
- 13 Gries, D. 1968 January. Use of transition matrices in compiling. CACM 11(1): 26-34. Google ScholarDigital Library
- 14 Hardy, S. 1978 February. Graphics in BASIC and structured BASIC. Hanover NH: Kiewit Computation Center. TM110.Google Scholar
- 15 Hargraves, R. F. 1959 October. DART I. Hanover NH: Dartmouth Computation Center.Google Scholar
- 16 Ingerman, P. Z. 1961 January. Thunks. CACM 4(1): 55-58. Google ScholarDigital Library
- 17 Irons, E. T. 1961 January. A syntax directed compiler for ALGOL 60. CACM 4(1): 51-55. Google ScholarDigital Library
- 18 Irons, E. T. and Feurzeig, W. 1961 January. Comments on the implementation of recursive procedures and blocks in ALGOL 60. CACM 4(1): 65 -69. Google ScholarDigital Library
- 19 Isaacs, G. L. 1973 March. Interdialect translatability of the BASIC programming language. Iowa City IA: The American College Testing Program. ACT Technical Bulletin No. 11.Google Scholar
- 20 Kemeny, J. G. 1962 May. Dartmouth oversimplified programming Experiment. Hanover NH: Dartmouth Computation Center.Google Scholar
- 21 Kemeny, J. G. and Kurtz, T. E. 1963. A proposal for a college computation center. Hanover NH: Dartmouth College.Google Scholar
- 22 Kemeny, J. G. and Kurtz, T. E. 1964 June. BASIC instruction manual. Hanover NH: Dartmouth College.Google Scholar
- 23 Kemeny, J. G. and Kurtz, T. E. 1964, October. BASIC, 2nd ed. Hanover NH: Dartmouth College Computation Center.Google Scholar
- 24 Kemeny, J. G. and Kurtz, T. E. 1966. BASIC, 3rd ed. Hanover NH: Dartmouth College.Google Scholar
- 25 Kemeny, J. G. and Kurtz, T. E. 1967. BASIC, 3rd ed., supplement. Hanover NH: Dartmouth College.Google Scholar
- 26 Kemeny, J. G. and Kurtz, T. E. 1968. Dartmouth time sharing. Science 162: 223-228.Google ScholarCross Ref
- 27 Knapp, A. W. and Kurtz, T. E. 1962. MESS, a master executive supervisory system. Hanover NH: Dartmouth College.Google Scholar
- 28 Kurtz, T. E. 1962 February. ALGOL for the LGP-30, a comparison. Hanover NH: Dartmouth Computation Center.Google Scholar
- 29 Kurtz, T. E. 1962 March. ALGOL-30 system operating instructions. Hanover NH: Dartmouth College Computation Center. Procedure manual CCM-5.Google Scholar
- 30 Kurtz, T. E. 1962 October. A Manual for SCALP, a self-contained Algol processor. Hanover NH: Dartmouth Computation Center.Google Scholar
- 31 Kurtz, T. E. 1963 January. Programming for a Digital Computer. Hanover NH: Dartmouth College.Google Scholar
- 32 Kurtz, T. E. 1963 May. Languages. (Unpublished memorandum). Hanover NH: Dartmouth College.Google Scholar
- 33 Kurtz, T. E. 1963 November. Background for the time sharing system, Hanover NH: Dartmouth Computation Center. Time Sharing Project Memo No. 1.Google Scholar
- 34 Loveday, E. 1977 September. George Stibitz and the Bell Labs Relay Computer. Datamation: 80-85.Google Scholar
- 35 Mather, D. G. and Waite, S. V. F. (eds.) 1971. BASIC, 6th ed. Hanover NH: University Press of New England.Google Scholar
- 36 McCarthy, J. et al 1963. A time sharing debugging system for a small computer. In AFIPS Conference Proceedings. Vol. 23, pp. 51-57. Baltimore MD: Sparten Books.Google Scholar
- 37 McGeachie, J. S. and Kreider, D. L. 1974. Project FIND —an integrated information and modeling system for management. In AFIPS Conference Proceedings. Vol 43, pp. 529-535. Montvale NJ: AFIPS Press.Google Scholar
- 38 Naur, P. (ed.) 1960. Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60. CACM 3(5): 299-314. Google ScholarDigital Library
- 39 Nevison, J. M. 1978. The little book of BASIC style. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley.Google Scholar
- 40 Samelson, K. and Bauer, F. L. 1960 February. Sequential formula translation. CACM 3(2): 76-83. Google ScholarDigital Library
- 41 SPARC 1973. Proposal for an American National Standard project under committee X3, the BASIC programming language.Google Scholar
- 42 Wheelock, E. 1769. The Dartmouth College Charter. Portsmouth, NH: King George III.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- BASIC
Recommendations
Basic
Encyclopedia of Computer ScienceBasic (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was invented at Dartmouth College in 1964 to allow all students, especially those with no interest in science, to learn about the computer, i.e. to write simple programs. The students used Basic ...
Computer Basic Teaching in Xinjiang Vocational College
ICM '11: Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference of Information Technology, Computer Engineering and Management Sciences - Volume 03Computer basic teaching aims to develop and improve the quality of students' computer literacy, to have proficiency in computer application skills for students. Therefore, we must oriente to people, individualize students, we must combinatie the ...
Comments