video on the birth of BASIC

[Namir]

I had the chance to met Kemeny and Kurtz in 1986 in their True BASIC office in West Lebanon, NH. When I met Dr Kemeny I asked him "I read that you had worked for Einstein. How was he?" Kemeny eplied, "Even in his 70s, Esitein was incredibly smart. I had spent a year trying to solve complicated partial differential equations for him. At the end of the year I went back to him and said that the task was too complex!". I had the chance to meet Tom Kurtz several times and work with him on some statistical software I was developing. Kurtz was very nice and down to earth person. Easy to talk to.

I still use BASIC on a dailiy basis in the form of VBA in Excel. That is the legacy of Kemeny and Kurtz in my daily life.

Namir