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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Les Earnest''' (Lester Donald Earnest) was one of the founders (''the'' founder, in his eyes) of the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]] (the role of [[John McCarthy]] is unclear); he was its administrative head for the entire period before it was merged into the Computer Science Department of Stanford University in 1980.<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/ Brags and Blunders of Lester Donald Earnest] (archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20231021140222/https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/ here]) - post-retirement version of his Stanford home page<br />
** [http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/vita.htm Biography of Les Earnest] (archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20070324195535/http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/vita.htm here]) - CV<br />
* [https://lists.stanford.edu/pipermail/sailaway3/ sailaway3 -- History of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab people and spinoffs] - Les's musings on SAIL <!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20220712050230/https://lists.stanford.edu/pipermail/sailaway3/ --><br />
** [https://lists.stanford.edu/pipermail/sailaway3/2017/000006.html Fake history continues to be as popular as fake news but some real history is apparently about to happen] - has personal bio info on Les<br />
* [https://therealnews.com/cold-war-radar-system-a-trillion-dollar-fraud-lester-ernest-on-rai-1-4 Cold War Radar System a Trillion Dollar Fraud - Lester Earnest on RAI (1/5)] - has more personal bio info on Les<br />
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