Thomas e kurtz biography of michael jackson
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Thomas E. Kurtz
Born February 22, 1928, Oak Park, Ill.; with John Kemeny, developer of the programming language and system BASIC.
Education: BA, Knox College, 1950; PhD, mathematics/statistics, Princeton University, 1956.
Thomas e kurtz biography of michael jackson
Professional Experience: Dartmouth College: instructor, mathematics, 1956-1958, assistant professor, 1958-1963, associate professor, 1963-1966; professor, 1966-1993, director, Computing Center, 1959-1975, director, Kiewit Computation Center, 1966-1975, director, Office of Academic Computing, 1975-1978, vice chair and chair, Program in Computing and Information Science, 1979-1988; member, Pierce Panel, President's Science Advisory Council in Higher Education, 1965-1967; chairman, Council, EDUCOM, 1973-1974.
Honors and Awards: AFIPS Pioneer Award, 1974; DSc (Hon.), Knox College, 1987; IEEE Computer Science Pioneer Award, 1991.
Kurtz received his PhD in statistics from Princeton in 1956, his first contact with computing having occurred in 1951 at