“How to keep your computer (and you) safe” is the topic of the next Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory monthly noon lecture meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 14. The speaker will be James A. "Jim" Rome, ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96 At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers.

For him, lecture performance lays bare the imbalance of power between lecturer and listener, and highlights the alchemy of language. His previous work evoked similar themes.