John George Kemeny (1926–1992), was a Hungarian-American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas Eugene Kurtz. He also served as the 13th President of Dartmouth College (1970–1981) and pioneered the use of computers in college education. Dr. Kemeny chaired the presidential commission that investigated the Three Mile Island accident in 1979.
