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Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:01:34 -0400

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50th Anniversary

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Medicine and Science

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Fifty years ago, mathematicians John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire introduced BASIC, a new language for programming computers. The name stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

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