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title: "System Support for the Stanford Hand-Eye System"
authors:
  - "Jerome A. Feldman"
  - "Robert F. Sproull"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/19"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/0019.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1971
pages: "183-188"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# System Support for the Stanford Hand-Eye System

Jerome A. Feldman, Robert F. Sproull

*Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 183-188.

## Abstract

The Stanford hand-eye system is implemented as several separate tasks, each executing under a timesharing executive. Development of a programming language (SAIL) and augmentation of the timesharing system were required to provide the necessary data sharing and control flow among the tasks . The SAIL language provides facilities for "associative processing ," and is extended to serve the data sharing and communication needs of the hand-eye system. Several user facilities are designed to aid running and debugging the system.