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Edward L. Glaser
Pages 90-95

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... At the distinguished North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, Illinois, he established a record as an outstanding student. In 1951 he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College with an A.B.
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... In pursuit of these interests, Glaser always asked himself how things could be made better and, as a result, held more than fifty patents. Among these were patents for an automatic printer, computer control circuitry, word field selection, magnetic tape, whole data processing systems, stored programs systems, and time-sharing systems.
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... It was he who conceived Project LOGOS, the central research program in the information sciences at Case. Project LOGOS was a design project intended to establish and implement the computer-aided design of foolproof, certifiable computer systems that would perform exactly as instructed no more and no less.
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... Air Force's Computer Security Committee; as the computer member of the Department of Transportation's Alexander Committee on Traffic Control; as a trustee of Seeing Eye, Inc., the Sensory Aids Foundation, and the Interuniversity Council; and as a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Division of Engineering, Subcommittee on Sensory Aids of the Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development. He also served on the Science Advisory Board of the National Security Agency.
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