SAIL

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.