[1] He was a pioneer in the creation of online databases and was honored with the Award of Merit from the Association for Information Science and Technology.
He left the Navy two years later (1946) with a diploma in Morse code, which allowed him to enter the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1956 Cuadra joined the RAND Corporation, which worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the creation of an air defense system.
From these efforts, System Development Corporation, better known by its acronym SDC, was born, a specialized center for online information.
Its first page consisted of a table detailing the evolution of the number of databases, producers, hosts and gateways with data from previous editions.