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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>SAIL</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="sagan.html" title="sagan"/><link rel="next" href="salescritter.html" title="salescritter"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">SAIL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sagan.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="salescritter.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="SAIL"/><dt xmlns="" id="SAIL"><b>SAIL</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/sayl/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/S·A·I·L/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. 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
<a href="../W/WAITS.html"><i class="glossterm">WAITS</i></a> 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. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language used at SAIL (sense
1). It was an Algol-60 derivative with a coroutining facility and some new
data types intended for building search trees and association lists.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sagan.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="salescritter.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">sagan </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> salescritter</td></tr></table></div></body></html>