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Stanford AI Lab Founded
The Stanford AI Lab was founded by John McCarthy after he left MIT and moved to Stanford. -
SAIL Cart
Originally started in the early 1960s as a way to build a rover for the moon, Les Earnest, an exec at SAIL, attempted to restart the "Standford Cart program" as the first autonomous road vehicle. -
Spellchecker Written in LISP
A grad student at SAIL used a dictionary created by Les Earnest to develop a new spellchecker in the LISP programming language -
WAITS Operating System Developed
A time sharing operating system was developed for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 computers of the lab. The operating system had a text editor and also supported the creating of vector and raster graphics.
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"A Program to Play Chess End Games"
A computer model is developed to play chess - early version of artificial intelligence. The model is designed to be able to achieve checkmate from any starting position. -
Stanford Arm
This robotic arm, developed by Victor Scheinman, was one of the first to be designed solely for control by a machine. The research from this project (computer modeling, object recognition, collision avoidance, and control) has been applied to most modern industrial robots. -
SAIL connected to ARPANET
The Stanford AI Lab was connected to the original ARPANET infrastructure -
Stanford Artificial Intellegience Language (SAIL)
The SAIL programming language was developed by Dan Swinehart and Bob Sproull for the PDP-10 and DECSYSTEM. PUB, the document formatting system, was coded in this language. -
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SAIL Staff Member Initiate Development of Public Key Infrastructure
Whitefield Diffie and Martin Hellman begin develop the PKI system for modern cryptography -
First System Developed with a Television Monitor
A system at SAIL was developed that had display monitors that placed terminals directly in officers, as opposed to "display rooms" -
SAIL Timesharing system (DEC-10) Shut Down
At the time, the oldest time sharing system a DEC-10 mainframe computer at the AI lab, also called "SAIL" was shut down permanently. -
SAIL-Toyota Collaboration on Autonomous Systems
Stanford AI Lab and Toyota begin a partnership after $25 million funds from Toyota to develop systems that reduce traffic casualties and assist drivers with autonomous driving technologies. -
Stanford Robot Recovers Treasure from Louis XIV shipwreck
A Stanford Robot named OceanOne powered by AI and also allows for human remote control was used to explore a shipwreck from the 17th century. -
Co-GAIL
A novel method for robot learning is developed - a 2d strategy games is part of a process that allows for a robot to estimate unobserved strategies of a human collaborator that will further the process of human-robot collaboration practices -
Conditional Pixel Synthesis Model Developed
Researches of the Stanford AI Lab develop a new model that creates photo-realistic imagery from low-resolution satellite imagery. This practice could be useful for remote sensing applications where high-resolution imagery is needed but difficult or prohibitively expensive to obtain.