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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 15:56:21 UTC Robert McNees
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- Black Aziz Anansi [In Exile]
@BlackAzizAnansi The first person to earn a Computer Science PhD in the US was Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, BVM. She helped Kemeny and Kurtz develop the BASIC programming language.
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  Attached: 1 image 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
- Black Aziz Anansi [In Exile] (blackazizanansi@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 15:56:25 UTC Black Aziz Anansi [In Exile]
  
  Drop an interesting but obscure history fact.
  
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