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The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (commonly called the Stanford AI Lab, or SAIL), was one of the leading centres for artificial intelligence research from the 1960s through the 1980s.It was started by John McCarthy after he moved from MIT to Stanford in 1963. From 1965 to 1980, it was housed in the fabled D.C. Power building (named after an executive of G.T.E. , which donated the building and site to Stanford, not the type of electricity), in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking Stanford. In 1980, it moved into Margaret Jacks Hall in the main Stanford campus, and its activities were merged into the Computer Science Department.
SAIL alumni played a major role in many Silicon Valley firms, including Sun Microsystems. Research accomplishments at SAIL were many, including in the fields of speech recognition and robotics.
SAIL also created the WAITSWAITS was a heavily modified variant of the Digital Equipment Corporation's TOPS-10 operating system for the PDP-10 mainframe computer, used at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) up until 1990; the mainframe computer it ran on also wen operating systemIn computing, an operating system OS is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations, as well as running application software such as word processing programs and web browsers. In general, t. WAITS ran on various models of Digital Equipment CorporationDigital Equipment Corporation is a pioneering company in the American computer industry. They are generally referred to within the computing industry as DEC . This acronym was once officially used by DEC itself Digital Equipment Corporation#References|[1] PDP-10The PDP-10 was a computer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from the late 1960s on; the name stands for "Programmed Data Processor model 10". It was the machine that made time-sharing common; it looms large in hacker folklore because of computers, starting with the PDP-6The PDP-6 P rogrammed D ata P rocessor 6 was a computer model developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1963. It was influential primarily as the prototype (effectively) for the later PDP-10; the instruction sets of the two machines are almost i, then the KA10 and KL10 . At one time, the SAIL system was a triple processor KL10/KA10/PDP-6. The SAIL system was shut down in 1991.
See also: SAIL programming languageSAIL the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language was developed by Dan Swinehart and Sproull of the Stanford AI Lab in 1970. It was originally a large ALGOL 60-like language for the DEC-10 and DEC-20. SAIL's main feature is a symbolic data system based u
