[1] They began the operation in a small studio apartment on Lincoln Avenue in San Rafael, California.
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.
After World War II, Earl earned a Master of Science degree in Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles.
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.