<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>The Computer History Museum's Oral History of Les Earnest is here:</div><div> <a href="http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102746589-05-01-acc.pdf">http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102746589-05-01-acc.pdf</a></div><div>and of course it includes SAGE.</div><div><br></div><div>Brian Berg</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 2:34 PM Larry Masinter <<a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org">LMM@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Les Earnest <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/</a> might help<br>
"...in 1956, I went to MIT to help design a high-tech air defense system called SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment)...."<br>
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> Innovations like this rarely occur in a complete vacuum, but I don't see references to any similar digital computing projects.<br>
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Perhaps they didn't occur then.<br>
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