00100	                   Biography of Lester D. Earnest
00200	
00300	
00400	BORN:	17 Dec. 1930 in San Diego, California
00500	
00600	EDUCATION:
00700	
00800		B.S. (Electrical Engineering), California Institute
00900			of Technology, 1953.
01000	
01100		U. S. Navy Schools (OCS, Aviation Ground Officers,
01200			Aviation Electronics Officers), 1953-54.
01300	
01400		M.S. (Electrical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute
01500			of Technology, 1960.
01600	
01700	SOCIETIES:
01800	
01900		Association for Computing Machinery
02000	
02100		Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers
02200	
02300		Sigma Xi
02400	
02500	PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
02600	
02700		1954-56  Digital Computer Project Officer, Aero. Computer Lab.
02800			Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville,  Pa.
02900	
03000		1956-58  Staff Member, Digital Computer Dept., MIT
03100			Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Mass.
03200	
03300		1959-63 Associate Head, Intelligence Systems Dept.,
03400			Mitre Corp., Bedford, Mass.
03500	
03600		1963-65 Department Head, Information Systems Dept.,
03700			Mitre Corp., Washington, D.  C.
03800	
03900		1965-present  Lecturer, Research Computer Scientist, and
04000			Associate Director of the Artificial Intelligence
04100			Laboratory, Stanford University.
04200	
04300	PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
04400	
04500		Designed the computer control systems for the BOMARC air defense
04600		missile and for manned interceptors operating in the SAGE air
04700		defense system.
04800	
04900		Did research and development work on information retrieval
05000		systems.
05100	
05200		Did research on computer recognition of cursive writing.
05300	
05400		Reviewer for ACM Computing Reviews, 1963-present.
05500	
05600		Local Arrangements Chairman, Third International Joint Conference
05700		on Artificial Intelligence, 1973.
05750	
05800	PUBLICATIONS:
05900	
06000		1.  "Kutta Integration with Error Control", ACM National
06100			Conference, 1957.
06200	
06300		2.  "Machine Recognition of Cursive Writing", Information
06400			Processing 62 (Proc. IFIP Congress 1962, Munich),
06500			North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1963.
06600	
06700		3.  Later work reported in N. Lindgren, "Machine Recognition
06800			of Human Language, Part III - Cursive Script Recognition",
06900			IEEE Spectrum, May 1965.
07000	
07100		4.  (with J. McCarthy, D. Reddy, and P. Vicens) "A Computer
07200			with Hands, Eyes, and Ears", AFIPS Vol. 33 (Proc. FJCC),
07300			Thompson, Washington D. C., 1968.