Died 1992-12-26.
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John George Kemeny
John George Kemeny 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. Kemeny served as the 13th President of Dartmouth College from 1970 to 1981 and pioneered the use of computers in college education. Kemeny chaired the presidential commission that investigated the Three Mile Islan…
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science · Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist (1926–1992) · mathematician · computer scientist · university teacher · economist · university president · educator · also John George Kemeny, John G. Kemeny, János György Kemény, Kemeny
Born 31 May 1926 · Died 26 December 1992 · Q28900
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (1985).
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1983· 1 entry
Kemeny and Kurtz co-founded a company called True BASIC, Inc
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1976· 1 entry
When an additional chapter on random fields by David Griffeath was included
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1975· 1 entry
“How do we tell truths that might hurt?”
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1974· 1 entry
The American Federation of Information Processing Societies gave an award to Kemeny and Kurtz at the National Computer Conference for their work on BASIC and time-sharing
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1970· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1970–1981).
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1964· 1 entry
As well as one of the world's first time-sharing systems, the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (DTSS)
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1949· 2 entries
Studied at Princeton University, doctorate (1945–1949).
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After completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Type-theory vs
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1946· 1 entry
After completing a senior thesis, titled "Equivalent logical systems", under the supervision of Alonzo Church
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1945· 1 entry
Studied at George Washington Educational Campus (1940–1945).
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1943· 1 entry
Kemeny entered Princeton University where he studied mathematics and philosophy, but he took a year off during his studies to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where his boss was Richard Fe
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1940· 1 entry
Took the whole Kemeny family to the United States when the adoption of the second anti-Jewish law in Hungary became imminent
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1938· 1 entry
His father left for the United States alone
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-05-31.
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