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==Career== ==Career==
After being discharged from the Navy and before founding Fair, Isaac and Company, he worked at ] (then known as Stanford Research Institute), along with Bill Fair, during SRI's beginning years. While working at SRI, he was the first person to 'crash' a computer,{{Citation needed|date=September 2007}} a behemoth at SRI known as ], by feeding it a complex mathematical problem it could not solve (he had successfully solved the problem manually).{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}} After being discharged from the Navy and before founding Fair, Isaac and Company, he worked at ] (then known as Stanford Research Institute), along with Bill Fair, during SRI's beginning years.


Isaac and Bill Fair founded ] in 1956.<ref name=hist> FICO Official Site</ref> Isaac and Bill Fair founded ] in 1956.<ref name=hist> FICO Official Site</ref>

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Earl Judson Isaac (7 August 1921 – 12 December 1983), along with friend Bill Fair, set up the company Fair Isaac in a small studio apartment on Lincoln Ave. in San Rafael, California in the year 1956.

Early life and education

He was born in Buffalo, NY. He graduated from Annapolis with a mathematics degree , and was stationed on the USS Missouri while in the United States Navy.

Career

After being discharged from the Navy and before founding Fair, Isaac and Company, he worked at SRI International (then known as Stanford Research Institute), along with Bill Fair, during SRI's beginning years.

Isaac and Bill Fair founded Fair Isaac in 1956.

References

  1. History FICO Official Site

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