Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.

(Also it's not really a pyramid, it's a graph; programming languages et al. obviously rely on theoretical computer science, and theoretical CS is a branch of mathematics and as such not limited by the ...