
Kemeny graduated from Princeton University as a math student specializing in logic and computing. He was once Albert Einstein's research assistant. Hoping that one day everyone would be able to enjoy the marvels of computer programming through arithmetic, he created BASIC with Kurtz.
Their efforts were further developed by the famous Paul Allen and William Gates, in 1975. This cooperation on the development of a BASIC language for the Altair personal computer pathed a way for the Microsoft Corporation, the dominant of today's computer software empire.
BASIC has not stopped from there. Interpreters(MS-DOS) and compilers(QuickBasic, Professional Development System Basic, Visual Basic) have been created, and updated versions are still rushing their way out in the market.