Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

body, education (SAIL) /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ An important

site in the early development of LISP; with the MIT AILab, 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.

[Jargon File]

(2001-06-22)