Computing Dictionary
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory definition
body, education (SAIL) /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ An important site 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 and hacker-culture traditions (see the
WAITS entry for details). The SAIL machines were shut down in late May 1990, scant weeks after the MIT AI Lab's ITS cluster was officially decommissioned.
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(2001-06-22)