00100	                   Biography of Lester D. Earnest
00200	
00300	BORN:	17 Dec. 1930 in San Diego, California
00400	
00500	EDUCATION:
00600		B.S. (Electrical Engineering), California Institute
00700			of Technology, 1953.
00800		U. S. Navy Schools (OCS, Aviation Ground Officers,
00900			Aviation Electronics), 1953-54.
01000		M.S. (Electrical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute
01100			of Technology, 1960.
01200		Advanced studies, Stanford University and Midpeninsula
01300			Free University, 1966-present.
01400	
01500	SOCIETIES:
01600		Association for Computing Machinery
01700		Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers
01800		Sigma Xi
01900	
02000	PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
02100		1954-56  Digital Computer Project Officer, Aero. Computer Lab.
02200			Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville,  Pa.
02400		1956-58  Staff Member, Digital Computer Dept., MIT
02500			Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Mass.
02600		1959-63 Associate Head, Intelligence Systems Dept.,
02700			Mitre Corp., Bedford, Mass.
02800		1963-65 Department Head, Information Systems Dept.,
02900			Mitre Corp., Washington, D.  C.
03000		1965-present  Lecturer, Research Computer Scientist, and
03100			Executive Officer of the Artificial Intelligence Project,
03200			Computer Science Dept., Stanford University.
03300	
03400	PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
03500		Designed the computer control systems for the BOMARC  air
03600		defense missile and for manned interceptors operating in the 
03700		SAGE air defense system.
03800	
03900		Did research and development work on information retrieval
04000		systems.
04100	
04200		Did research on computer recognition of cursive writing.
04300	
04400		Currently interested in machine perception and manipulation of
04500		three-dimensional objects.
04600	
     

04700	PUBLICATIONS:
04800		1.  "Kutta Integration with Error Control", ACm National
04900			Conference, 1957.
05000		2.  "Machine Recognition of Cursive Writing", Information
05100			Processing 62 (Proc. IFIP Congress 1962, Munich),
05200			North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1963.
05300		3.  Later work reported in N. Lindgren, "Machine Recognition
05400			of Human Language, Part III - Cursive Script Recognition",
05500			IEEE Spectrum, May 1965.
05600		4.  (with J. McCarthy, D. Reddy, and P. Vicens) "A Computer
05700			with Hands, Eyes, and Ears", AFIPS Vol. 33 (Proc. FJCC),
05800			Thompson, Washington D. C., 1968.