Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory


Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

(body, education)(SAIL) /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ An importantsite in the early development of LISP; with the MIT AI Lab, BBN, CMU, XEROX PARC, and the Unix community,one of the major wellsprings of technical innovation andhacker-culture traditions (see the WAITS entry for details).The SAIL machines were shut down in late May 1990, scant weeksafter the MIT AI Lab's ITS cluster was officiallydecommissioned.