Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was born #OTD in 1913. She worked with John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz on the design and implementation of Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — BASIC — and was the first woman in the US to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
10 PRINT “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”
20 GOTO 10
@mcnees
Thanks, Sister! I still have a fondness for Basic, though haven't used it in quite a while. Maybe I should drag the TI99/4A out of the garage one day, it still worked the last time I plugged it in about five years ago. (Though I guess an emulator wouldn't be all that hard to find.)
I was unaware of the lady's involvement in this huge milestone, so thanks for mentioning it!
Robert McNees
Andy Lowry