![]() ![]() Kent turned his talents to college football, setting out to develop a program that would take his previous experiments further. So he decided to begin work on yet another program, one that would eventually change his life and take him from suburban Pittsburgh to the bright lights of Las Vegas. While the results of the program outlined the strengths and weaknesses of his softball team, it failed to satisfy the analytical mind of the bespectacled computer whiz. ![]() ![]() This led him to develop a computer program to analyze all the available information, and he was able to feed the punch-card data into the company’s central computer (which was the height of sophistication for 1972). The team had won several league championships, and their success made Kent wonder how good he and his fellow players really were. His responsibility during the week was to use computers to build a better nuclear submarine, but the weekends found him playing centerfield for the company softball team. In 1972, at the age of 27, Michael Kent was employed by Westinghouse, the Pittsburgh-based king of the nuclear power industry. ![]()
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