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			{{Short description\|American 20th-century mathematician and entrepreneur}}
	'''Earl Judson Isaac''' (] ] – ] ]) along with friend ] set up the company ] in small studio apartment on Lincoln Ave. in San Rafael, California in the year 1956. He was born in Buffalo, NY and died in 1983 in Novato, California. He graduated from Annapolis with a mathematics degree {{Fact\|date=September 2007}}, and was stationed on the USS Missouri while in the Navy. After being discharged from the Navy and before founding Fair, Isaac and Company, he worked at SRI (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 {{Fact\|date=September 2007}}, 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). This event supported his view that computers would/will never be able to completely replace a human being. He was also of the opinion that a computer is only as smart as the person programming it. That said, he had experimented with artificial intelligence as early as 1950.
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			'''Earl Judson Isaac''' (7 August 1921 – 12 December 1983) founded ] along with friend ] in 1956.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=How FICO became 'the' credit score\|url=http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fico-became-credit-score-100000037.html\|access-date=2021-09-23\|website=finance.yahoo.com\|language=en-US}}</ref> They began the operation in a small studio apartment on Lincoln Avenue in ].<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Finance: The boys in the back room\|url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/0504/6109042a.html\|access-date=2021-09-23\|website=Forbes\|language=en}}</ref>

			==Early life and education==
			Earl Isaac was born in ]. The youngest of five children, Earl had two older brothers and two older sisters. He graduated from high school at age 15, attended ], then accepted an appointment in the ] at Annapolis, Maryland, for the class of 1944. Because of the outbreak of World War II, he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1943, one year early, and served as a U.S. Naval officer on the ]. After World War II, Earl earned a Master of Science degree in Mathematics at ].

			==Career==
			After being discharged from the Navy, he worked at ] during SRI's beginning years, then known as Stanford Research Institute, along with Bill Fair, his future business partner.

			With an initial investment of $400 each, Isaac and Fair founded ] in 1956, a firm that would provide a creditworthiness scoring system to lenders.<ref name=hist> — FICO official Web site</ref>

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			* View Points Special Issue — The Fair Isaac Company, January 1986, written by William R. Fair. (article is not online)

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American 20th-century mathematician and entrepreneur

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Earl Judson Isaac (7 August 1921 – 12 December 1983) founded Fair, Isaac and Company along with friend William R. "Bill" Fair in 1956. They began the operation in a small studio apartment on Lincoln Avenue in San Rafael, California.

Early life and education

Earl Isaac was born in Buffalo, New York. The youngest of five children, Earl had two older brothers and two older sisters. He graduated from high school at age 15, attended Muskingum University, then accepted an appointment in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, for the class of 1944. Because of the outbreak of World War II, he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1943, one year early, and served as a U.S. Naval officer on the USS Missouri. After World War II, Earl earned a Master of Science degree in Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles.

Career

After being discharged from the Navy, he worked at SRI International during SRI's beginning years, then known as Stanford Research Institute, along with Bill Fair, his future business partner.

With an initial investment of $400 each, Isaac and Fair founded Fair, Isaac and Company in 1956, a firm that would provide a creditworthiness scoring system to lenders.

References

Notes

"How FICO became 'the' credit score". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
"Finance: The boys in the back room". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
About Us | FICO — FICO official Web site

Bibliography

View Points Special Issue — The Fair Isaac Company, January 1986, written by William R. Fair. (article is not online)

External links

FICO - About Us - History

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