Les Earnest

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.

External links

• Brags and Blunders of Lester Donald Earnest (archived here) - post-retirement version of his Stanford home page
  • Biography of Les Earnest (archived here) - CV
• sailaway3 -- History of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab people and spinoffs - Les's musings on SAIL
  • 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
• Cold War Radar System a Trillion Dollar Fraud - Lester Earnest on RAI (1/5) - has more personal bio info on Les