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Stanford AI Lab is founded
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Steve Russell Bring the First Video Game to SAIL
"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 -
SAIL Chooses an Eye for Automation
It was found that image dissector cameras which are extremely pricey were less functional than inexpensive Vidicon cameras -
The Stanford Arm is Invented
A robotic arm invented by Victor Scheinman. This was a precursor to modern industrial robots. -
Marvin Minsky Wins the Turing Award
Minsky and John McCarthy co-founded the Artificial Intelligence Project at MIT in the late 1950s -
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language Invented
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The Prancing Pony Vending Machine Invented
born out of a necessity for food and drinks in the lab it was the first-ever computer-controlled vending machine -
"Finger" Begins Computerized Social Networking
Originally intended to help monitor computer users but started the development of computerized social networking -
RWW Creates The Black Hole Fund
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. -
SAIL Disappears
Merged into the Computer Science Department and removed from it's off campus location -
Fire in the hills around the D.C. Power building almost burns it down
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SAIL is reopened on the Stanford main Campus
Sebastian Thrun becomes the new director with the goal to "change the way we understand the world" -
Stanley wins the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
SAIL worked in conjunction with the Stanford racing team to create this remarkable self driving car. -
Barbara Hubermann Liskov becomes the 15th member of SAIL to win a Turing Award
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) -
SAIL Spinoffs Booming
The four richest publicly traded companies across the globe Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon were all SAIL spinoffs