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 also created the WAITSoperating system. WAITS ran on various models of Digital Equipment CorporationPDP-10 computers, starting with the PDP-6, 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.
The AILab (as it is commonly abbreviated) was originally a subdivision of Project MAC.
In 2003, the AILab was merged with the Laboratory for Computer Science, another Project MAC descendant, to form CSAIL.
The AILab is currently interested principally in the problems of vision, mechanical motion and manipulation, and language, which they view as the keys to more intelligent machines.
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.
SAIL, the StanfordArtificial Intelligence Language, was developed by Dan Swinehart and Bob Sproull of the StanfordAILab in 1970.
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