John George Kemeny ( born Kemény János György ; May 31 , 1926 – December 26 , 1992 ) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician , computer scientist , and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas E. Kurtz . Kemeny served as the 13th President of Dartmouth College from 1970 to 1981 and pioneered the use of computers in college education . Kemeny chaired the presidential commission that investigated the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 . According to György Marx he was one of The Martians
Three Mile Island accident
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