The Computer History Museum's Oral History of Les Earnest is here:
and of course it includes SAGE.

Brian Berg

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 2:34 PM Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> wrote:
Les Earnest https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/  might help
"...in 1956, I went to MIT to help design a high-tech air defense system called SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment)...."

> Innovations like this rarely occur in a complete vacuum, but I don't see references to any similar digital computing projects.

Perhaps they didn't occur then.

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https://LarryMasinter.net https://interlisp.org


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