Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
     
         (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.
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (2001-06-22)