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p. 26.
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The APT and CAD Projects had one Air Force sponsorship, but it was actually a combination of about five or six projects, all going in parallel on both hardware and software matters, and I couldn't keep track of things, so I would take Polaroid pictures of the blackboard and then say what we had talked about into my dictating machine and my secretary would type it up.

— Douglas T. Ross

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Source: Wikiquote: "Douglas T. Ross" (Quotes, Retrospectives : The Early Years in Computer Graphics at at MIT, Lincoln Lab and Harvard (1989): Douglas T. Ross (1989) in: J. Hurst (1989) Retrospectives : The Early Years in Computer Graphics at at MIT, Lincoln Lab and Harvard".) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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Douglas T. Ross

About Douglas T. Ross

Douglas Taylor "Doug" Ross (December 21, 1929 – January 31, 2007) was an American computer scientist pioneer, and Chairman of SofTech, Inc. He is most famous for originating the term CAD for computer-aided design, and is considered to be the father of Automatically Programmed Tools (APT) a language to drive numerically controlled manufacturing.