Les Earnest
From Computer History Wiki
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