Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming ... who didn’t have a technical background,” John McGeachie, who helped build ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College ... At first, programming a computer involved literally connecting wires ...

“It was more about making computers usable by all sorts of people, who didn’t have a technical background ... to test a new computer in the basement of College Hall at Dartmouth in 1964.Credit ...