home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!dbradley
- From: dbradley@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (David Bradley)
- Subject: Re: John Kemeny,66,Computer Pioneer and Educator is dead
- References: <1hklnfINN1rp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Message-ID: <C03L4H.Cz0@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: Math Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:24:15 GMT
- Lines: 12
-
- In article <1hklnfINN1rp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bz223@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Danny Guy Frezza) writes:
- >
- >As reported in the New York Times Today, John Kemeny died yesterday
- >from a heart attack. Dr. Kemeny was a Mathematican at Dartmouth College
- >and later served as President of Dartmouth. He is remembered by computer
- >programmers as a co-inventor of "Basic", a computer language.
- > Full text in the NYT.
-
- I don't get the Times. Wasn't he one of a small group of gifted
- high-school students recruited to work at Los Alamos during the War?
-
- -D.M. Bradley
-