Semi-Automatic Ground Environment

(SAGE) The computer system of the old US Norad air defence system. SAGE was ground-breaking in many ways, such as being one of the first very large software projects and the first real-time system.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory developed SAGE and MITRE Corporation was responsible for system engineering and implementation oversight.

(http://www.togger.com/), (http://www.jps.net/ethelen/sage.html), (http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ewow-ray/sage28.html).

[Confirm? Dates? Connection with MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics?]

(1999-12-16)

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)