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SAIL
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SAIL: /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ /n./ 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 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. 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.
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