< body , education > (SAIL) /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ 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.
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(2001-06-22)