I just saw.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-14/thomas-kurtz-co-creator-…
On Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 9:36 AM Murray McCullough via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
  Today another giant in the ‘microcomputer’ industry
has passed: Thomas
 Eugene Kurtz  a computer scientist, co-creator/inventor with John Kemeny of
 the BASIC language that I grew up with.  Somewhat dates me!
 Happy computing,
 Murray  🙂