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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

Not surprising with a CEO with a PhD in Math, at ESL the engineers ran the company, pursuing bleeding-edge designs in antennas, receivers and microwaves – at times hand in hand with Stanford’s engineering department. Smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth. The “customers’” contracts funded the company.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. Skip the next section if you’re a history major.) Meanwhile the U.S.

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The Road Not Taken

Steve Blank

government kept up the pace. to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. From a standing start in 1942 the U.S. scaled up the production of U-235 and plutonium from micrograms to tens of kilograms by 1945.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Classic computers are designed to do anything a human explicitly tells them to do. They’d steamroll everyone.