14. Publication.

It is fair to say that SAIL in the 1970s failed at Artificial Intelligence, but succeeded at both academic publication and publication technology. The old stories about SAIL publication include the old hardware, LPT and XGP, extended character sets, font design, document layout, laser printing commercialization and the software such as PUB and TeX. Intermediate stories concern the influence of SAIL graduates and spinoffs as well as SAIL relationships with other institutions involved in publication research such as III, AMS and Xerox. Finally the most recent stories are about the SAILDART archive and how to publish a digital archive in the current 21st century.

The container for the Saildart Archive must not be opaque. Librarians expect visitors and circulation. Archives permit access. Depositories and Time Capsules are built to be read. Publication includes dynamic presentation and performance as well as static hardcopy media.

Exercises

1. Resume Friday afternoon office hours for SailDart, say starting at 3pm, in or near the present day A.I.Lab Fishbowl conference room#120 Gates building on the Stanford Campus.
2. Start holding code review readings for the SAIL 1974 re-enactment software.
3. Self publish this Prolegomenon with an end-of-year ISBN edition.
4. Reprint sets of the DEC and SAIL systems programming manuals need for 1974 hacking.

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