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The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) has been a center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence research, teaching, theory, and practice since its founding in 1963.





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AI Lab celebrates 50th Anniversary of Intergalactic “Spacewar!” Olympics
Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Intergalactic “Spacewar!” Olympics, the world’s first video game tournament on Wednesday, October 20th.
Chelsea Finn Explains Moravec’s Paradox in 5 Levels of Difficulty in WIRED Video
Prof. Finn explains Moravec’s paradox, which is the observation that many things that are difficult for robots are easy for humans and vice versa, to a child, a teenager, an undergrad, a grad student and finally to a colleague.
Prof. Oussama Khatib’s Journey with Ocean OneK
A robotic diving system that looks like a Transformer? Ocean OneK can go to depths that would kill a human diver. WIRED spoke with Professor Oussama Khatib to understand how he and his team designed, built and tested this robotic diver.
Congratulations to Daphne Koller for Winning the 2022 Technical Leadership Abie Award
Congratulations to co-founder of Coursera and adjunct faculty member Daphne Koller for winning the 2022 Abie Award celebrating a woman or non-binary technologist who led or developed a product, process, or innovation that made a notable impact on business or society.
Emma Brunskill recieves University of Washington CS Distinguished Alumni Award
Congratulations to Emma Brunskill on receiving a University of Washington Allen School Distinguished Alumni Award!
Fei-Fei Li wins the Thomas Huang Memorial Prize
Congratulations to Fei Fei Li for winning the Thomas Huang Memorial Prize!
We Are Pleased to Welcome New Members of Our Faculty
Diyi Yang who focuses on Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing
Sanmi Koyejo who focuses on Trustworthy Machine Learning for Healthcare and Neuroscience


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