ABSTRACT
John G. Kemeny, coauthor of BASIC and codeveloper of the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, returned to full-time teaching in June 1982 after completing eleven years as President of Dartmouth College.
In 1979 he was selected by President Jimmy Carter to chair the Presidential Commission to investigate the Three Mile Island accident. The commission’s report, submitted in October 1979, was highly critical of the nuclear power industry and its federal regulators.
