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| | DATE OF BIRTH = 7 August 1921 | | DATE OF BIRTH = 7 August 1921 | ||
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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. While working at SRI, he was the first person to 'crash' a computer, a behemoth at SRI known as ENIAC, by feeding it a complex mathematical problem it could not solve (he had successfully solved the problem manually).
Isaac and Bill Fair founded Fair Isaac in 1956.
References
- History FICO Official Site
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