AI Lab people

Photographs of early Stanford AI-Lab People

The Stanford Artificial Intelligence (SAIL) laboratory resided in the D.C. Power building, in a remote corner of the Stanford Campus from 1965 to 1991. A Farewell message illustrates the fondness its members had for the laboratory, and lists some of its achievements.

Les Earnest maintains a documentary focusing on projects and its people. Bruce Baumgart maintains to associated archive.

The pictures have sections for Robot builders and their creations, and the DC Power building and games.

Collected as part of the Stanford Computer History Exhibits during a celebration of Don Knuth's 64th (1 000 000 base 2's) birthday, 2002. These pictures were provided by Vaughan Pratt and Bruce Baumgart. Most names were provided by Les Earnest. We'd like to add names, where unknown (listed at the end), and more pictures as well. The current locations and email of the people are of interest as well, many names may be also listed under their advisors' trees.
Because of the size and number, the full size images require a click to be loaded.
Send updates by email to: gio@cs.stanford.edu (Gio Wiederhold).

AI lab participants 1965-1980

Alphabetically after John McCarthy and Les Earnest:
JMC
00: John McCarthy - full size

05:

Les Earnest, lab manager

76:

Ed Ashcroft ? (per Richard Waldinger)

42:

Queenie Baur at work

84:

Queenie Baur

31:

Norm Briggs and ?

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36:

Ruzena Bajcsyova, now Ruzena Bajcsy

82:

Jack Buchanan (student of David Luckham)?

10:

Ken Colby

17:

Ashok Chandra

19:

John Chowning (music)

20:

John Chowning

34:

Whit Diffie

14:

Al Dulan

43:

32:

Gil Falk

56: ?

01:

Gary Feldman

02:

see student tree

12:

Jerry Feldman

51:

Jerry Gleason (head technician)

80:

Gary Goodman -- left with Raj Reddy for CMU

87:

Gary Goodman (left) and Mike Kahn

35:

Gunther Grape

95:

Cordell Green at left (Donald Knuth, Russ Taylor)

21:

Dick Helliwell

87:

Gary Goodman and Mike Kahn -- the taller person (right)

93:

Donald Knuth

96: reading

95:

Donald Knuth, Russ Taylor, Cordell Green

86:

Manfred Hueckel (Austrian post doc)

AK

11:

Alan Kay

81:

Michael Kelly

50:

Tom Knight

45:

Dave Luckham

85:

04:

Andy Moorer

28:

Rich Neally

90:

Malcolm Newey, and Dave Smith in profile

Worked with Ken Colby.

71:

Ted Panofsky at Volleyball

70:

left player

25:

Lou Paul

40:

Phil Petit

74:

with Bob Sproul in bg

46:

with a headless Dave Pole

29:

Karl Pingle

88:

09:

Bill Pitts at Checkers

38:

Dave Poole

46:

; headless, with Phil Petit

22:

Pratt ?

16:

Lynn Quam

15:

John Ryder

- full size. GO program.

07:

Art Samuel at TTY

08:

- full size. Checkers program.

41:

Steve Savitisky

30:

Dave Smith

90:

Dave Smith, in profile, and Malcolm Newey

- full size. Worked with Ken Colby.

18:

Leland Smith (music prof.)

83:

49:

Irwin Sobel

33:

Bob Sproul

74:

with Phil Petit in front

39:

Dan Swinehart

95:

Russ Taylor (Donald Knuth, Cordell Green)

27:

Larry Tesler

26:

Bob Tucker

13:

Bill Weiher

24:

Joe Zingham

Hardware

54:

DEC PDP 10, KA10 model

55:

Line Printer

52:

IIIdisplay showing Spacewar

(Information about the Galaxy, a successor game, and the first commercial game machine).

Robot Builders and their Robots

23:

Vic Scheinman at the Hydraulic Arm

53:

Rancho Arm

57:

Hydraulic Arm

58:

Hydraulic Arm

D.C. Power Building Scenes

The building and the site were donated to Stanford University by G.T.E., after they decided to cancel the planned corporate research lab adjacent to Stanford. It was named for one of their executives.

59:

D.C. Power Lab right

60:

D.C. Power Lab left

61:

view from D.C. Power Lab

62:

D.C. Power Lab view towards PaloAlto

63:

D.C. Power Lab view towards Los Altos

64:

D.C. Power Lab drive

65:

D.C. Power Lab drive towards Arastadero

67:

Volleyball (Les Earnest and Bob Sproul)

68:

Volleyball

69:

Volleyball (Bob Sproul)

70:

Volleyball with Dave Poole (left)

72:

VolleyballDCP

Unidentified SAIL folk

44:

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47:

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78:

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79:

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