BASIC inventor lecturing at Vintage Computer Festival

Hi everyone -- just an announcement that Dr. Thomas Kurtz, the
(co-)inventor of BASIC while at Dartmouth in 1964, will be giving a
keynote lecture at the Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0 (May 5-6,
2012, at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall, New Jersey.)

Dr. Kurtz's lecture is scheduled for noon on Saturday, May 5. It's
open to all. Kids get in free, and adult tickets are just $10 for the
day (or $15 for the weekend.) All proceeds benefit the non-profit
InfoAge museum and the sponsoring user group (MARCH - Mid-Atlantic
Retro Computing Hobbyists.)

Details will be posted soon at http://www.vintage.org/2012/east/ and
you can 'like' us at http://www.facebook.com/vcfeast8. Or, you can
email me personally at evan [at] snarc.net.

- Evan Koblentz

"Evan Koblentz" <evan947@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:c6165c53-4109-4b15-a60a-b602a52204fc@h13g2000vbn.googlegroups.com...
> Hi everyone -- just an announcement that Dr. Thomas Kurtz, the
> (co-)inventor of BASIC while at Dartmouth in 1964, will be giving a
> keynote lecture at the Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0 (May 5-6,
> 2012, at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall, New Jersey.)
>
> Dr. Kurtz's lecture is scheduled for noon on Saturday, May 5. It's
> open to all. Kids get in free, and adult tickets are just $10 for the
> day (or $15 for the weekend.) All proceeds benefit the non-profit
> InfoAge museum and the sponsoring user group (MARCH - Mid-Atlantic
> Retro Computing Hobbyists.)
>
> Details will be posted soon at http://www.vintage.org/2012/east/ and
> you can 'like' us at http://www.facebook.com/vcfeast8. Or, you can
> email me personally at evan [at] snarc.net.
>
> - Evan Koblentz

# Is his co-inventor, John Kemeny still around?
And is BASIC still available for the general public? That is, are books
on the topic sold in the average bookshop? I haven't seen any - though,
perhaps, they are on-line.

DonH wrote:

> "Evan Koblentz" <evan947@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c6165c53-4109-4b15-a60a-b602a52204fc@h13g2000vbn.googlegroups.com...
>> Hi everyone -- just an announcement that Dr. Thomas Kurtz, the
>> (co-)inventor of BASIC while at Dartmouth in 1964, will be giving a
>> keynote lecture at the Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0 (May 5-6,
>> 2012, at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall, New Jersey.)
>>
>> Dr. Kurtz's lecture is scheduled for noon on Saturday, May 5. It's
>> open to all. Kids get in free, and adult tickets are just $10 for the
>> day (or $15 for the weekend.) All proceeds benefit the non-profit
>> InfoAge museum and the sponsoring user group (MARCH - Mid-Atlantic
>> Retro Computing Hobbyists.)
>>
>> Details will be posted soon at http://www.vintage.org/2012/east/ and
>> you can 'like' us at http://www.facebook.com/vcfeast8. Or, you can
>> email me personally at evan [at] snarc.net.
>>
>> - Evan Koblentz
>
> # Is his co-inventor, John Kemeny still around?

Died 19 years ago.

> And is BASIC still available for the general public? That is, are books
> on the topic sold in the average bookshop? I haven't seen any - though,
> perhaps, they are on-line.

Hmm... books on VBA for MS Office, probably; other than that, I rather doubt
it (unless you include VB.Net... which I don't).

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