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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. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Soviet Air Defense – PVO Strany The B-52s had to get through a massive Soviet air defense system that had been built and evolved over two decades and was designed to shoot down manned bombers. All of this designed to make the plane if not invisible to Soviet radar, at least really difficult to lock onto and shoot down.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Classic computers are designed to do anything a human explicitly tells them to do. The CPUs (Central Processing Units) that write and run these Classic Computer applications all have the same basic design (architecture). The CPUs are designed to handle a wide range of tasks quickly in a serial fashion. design, etc.