# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-e-kurtz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:07:47.935Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-e-kurtz"
name: "Thomas E. Kurtz"
slug: "thomas-e-kurtz"
description: "Thomas Eugene Kurtz was an American computer scientist and educator. A Dartmouth professor of mathematics, he and colleague John G. Kemeny are best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language and the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1963 and 1964. These innovations made computing more accessible by simplifying programming for non-experts and allowing multiple users to share a single computer, transforming how computers were used in education and research."
tagline: "American computer scientist and educator (1928–2024)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Thomas_E._Kurtz.gif"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1928-02-22"
deathDate: "2024-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump