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Graduated George Washington High School
Graduated top of class. -
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Time at Princeton
Worked as Albert Einstein's assistant during graduate school. -
Worked on Manhattan Project
Los Alamos National Laboratory, boss was Richard Feynman. -
Doctoral Dissertation
"Type-Theory vs set-theory" Also graduated from Princeton with PhD in mathematics. -
Appointed Professor at Dartmouth
Held position until 1967, worked in curriculum development. -
Wrote Introduction to Finite Mathematics
With Gerald L. Thompson and Laurie Snell -
Wrote Finite Mathematical Structures
Inspired other colleges to create Finite Textbooks series -
Invented the BASIC programming language
Worked with Thomas E. Kurtz and Mary Kenneth Keller, designed it for ease of use for non-scientific students. Didn't require custom software. -
Created Dartmouth Time-Sharing System
First large-scale time-sharing system, allowed for the simultaneous users. By 1965, the system could support 40 simultaneous users. -
Dartmouth Time-Sharing System hits 2000 daily users
80% of students and 70% of faculty used it each year, and it had 79 terminals over the state of NY. -
American Federation of Information Processing Societies Award
Received with Kurtz, awarded for their work on Basic and time-sharing. BASIC was the language used in most software throughout the 1980s. -
Co-founder of True BASIC
cofounded with Kurtz, marketed True BASIC as an updated version of BASIC. Hardware-independent language with the possibility to write recursive functions. -
Microsoft Releases Visual Basic
A combination of the Ruby programmable form system with the Basic Language, allowing the development of GUI applications. Still supported today. -
Dartmouth Time-Sharing System Shutdown
Lasted several generations of computers including Mark II for General Electric -
Historical Marker in Hanover, New Hampshire
Recognized as the creator of "the first user-friendly programming language."
