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SAIL
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/sayl/ , /SAIL/ , n. 1. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. An
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important site in the early development of LISP; with the MIT AI Lab, BBN,
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CMU, XEROX PARC, and the Unix community, one of the major wellsprings of
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technical innovation and hacker-culture traditions (see the WAITS entry for
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details). The SAIL machines were shut down in late May 1990, scant weeks
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after the MIT AI Lab's ITS cluster was officially decommissioned. 2. The
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Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language used at SAIL (sense 1). It was an
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Algol-60 derivative with a coroutining facility and some new data types
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intended for building search trees and association lists.
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