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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory records
creator:
Stanford Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory.
Identifier/Call Number: SC1041
Physical Description:
184320 megabyte(s)
Physical Description:
40.75 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1963-2009
Abstract: The materials consist of SAIL Dump And
Restore Technique (DART) backup files, 1972-1990; digital copies of 16 mm films created from
1963-1980; handbooks; log books; manuals; and photographs and videos from the 35th SAIL
reunion held in 2009.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
The materials were transferred from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 2011;
2016.
The materials are partially restricted. Users may access the public corpus of the SAIL DART
files from the SAILDART website:
http://saildart.com/ .
Stanford Artifical Intelligence Laboratory Records (SC1041). Dept. of Special Collections
and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (also known as Stanford AI Lab or SAIL) is
the artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory of Stanford University. It was started
in 1963 by John McCarthy, after he moved from Massachusetts Institute of Technology to
Stanford. From 1965 to 1980, it was housed in the D.C. Power building, in the foothills of
the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking Stanford. During this period it was one of the leading
centers for AI research. In 1980, its activities were merged into the university's Computer
Science Department and it moved into Margaret Jacks Hall in the main Stanford campus. SAIL
was reopened in 2004, with Sebastian Thrun becoming its new director. SAIL's 21st century
mission is to "change the way we understand the world"; its researchers contribute to fields
such as bioinformatics, cognition, computational geometry, computer vision, decision theory,
distributed systems, game theory, general game playing, image processing, information
retrieval, knowledge systems, logic, machine learning, multi-agent systems, natural
language, neural networks, planning, probabilistic inference, sensor networks, and
robotics.
The materials consist of SAIL Dump And Restore Technique (DART) backup files, 1972-1990;
digital copies of 16 mm films created from 1963-1980; handbooks; log books; manuals; and
photographs and videos from the 35th SAIL reunion held in 2009.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Artificial intelligence.
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.