from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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 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.
[{Jargon File}]
(2001-06-22)