Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96
At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work ...
Thomas Kurtz, Co-Creator of Computer Language Basic, Dies at 96
Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic during the ...
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Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC, dead at 96
FREE! In his long and illustrious career as a mathematician and computer scientist, Thomas Eugene Kurtz achieved many things.
MAOF students to qualify for college credits at BC
A new initiative by the Kern Community College District will allow students enrolled in a skills center run by Bakersfield's Mexican American Opportunity Foundation to earn credits transferrable to ...
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RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop starts at $199 during early access
DeepComputing’s $199 Basic Tier package included a DC-ROMA RISC-V mainboard, a Cooler Master case that lets you use the ...
RISC-V motherboard for Framework 13 laptops and mini-PCs starts at $199 – quad-core RISC-V CPU and 8GB of RAM included
RISC-V company DeepComputing launches a $199 motherboard that’s ready out-of-the-box for the Framework 13 laptop and mini PCs ...
Microsoft’s startup story: How the company became a tech giant, and what we can learn from it today
For this second chapter in our Microsoft @ 50 series, GeekWire spent the past month revisiting Microsoft’s early years, from ...
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The AI lab waging a guerrilla war over exploitative AI
The tools Glaze and Nightshade are giving artists hope that they can fight back against AI that hoovers internet data to ...
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I guess the training’s down in Africa, CNCF & Andela skill-up 20,000+ IT pros
Full disclosure, I grew up in East Africa. A portion of my heart and soul will be forever tied to the dry earth, abundant ...
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Sanctuary AI Is Betting Big on Human-like Machines That Learn and Work
But Phoenix is growing up fast. Every piece of data it gleans from training sessions is fed into Sanctuary’s crown jewel, an ...
Want a programming job in 2024? Learning any language helps, but only one is essential
It's clear that if you have skills in the languages within the "opportunity zone" (i.e. Python, SQL, HTML, Java, C++, and ...
Qwen2.5-Coder just changed the game for AI programming—and it’s free
Coder, challenges GPT-4o with state-of-the-art code generation, offering free and open-source AI tools to developers worldwide despite U.S. chip restrictions.