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Founded by John McCarthy after he moved from MIT to Stanford -
"Spacewar" is considered the first videogame which Russell invented at MIT then brought to Stanford, SAIL colleagues Bill Pitts, Ted Panofsky, and Phil Petit improve and rename the game "Galaxy Game" putting a console at the lab and their local bar -
It was found that image dissector cameras which are extremely pricey were less functional than inexpensive Vidicon cameras -
A robotic arm invented by Victor Scheinman. This was a precursor to modern industrial robots. -
Minsky and John McCarthy co-founded the Artificial Intelligence Project at MIT in the late 1950s -
Developed by Dan Swinehart and Bob Sproull
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born out of a necessity for food and drinks in the lab it was the first-ever computer-controlled vending machine
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Originally intended to help monitor computer users but started the development of computerized social networking
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One of the first automated trading platforms it was designed to spot trends and buy shares. While it failed within a year but lead to RWW becoming successful with automated trading on Wall Street.
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Merged into the Computer Science Department and removed from it's off campus location
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Sebastian Thrun becomes the new director with the goal to "change the way we understand the world"
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SAIL worked in conjunction with the Stanford racing team to create this remarkable self driving car.
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She won for “contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing.” - the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) -
The four richest publicly traded companies across the globe Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon were all SAIL spinoffs