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• Marginal Hacks: n. Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the {D.
  C. Power Lab}). -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• D. C. Power Lab: n. The former site of {{SAIL}}. Hackers thought this was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent -- the lab was named for a Donald C.
  Power. Compare {Marginal Hacks}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• D. C. Power Lab n. The former site of SAIL. Hackers thought this was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent -- the lab was named for a Donald C.
  Power. Compare Marginal Hacks....
• bounce: v. 1. [perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'.
  See also {bounce message}. 2. [Stanford] To play volleyball....
• SAIL:: /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ n. 1. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab.
  An important site in the early development of LISP...
• cruft: /kruhft/ [back-formation from {crufty}] 1. n.
  An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruf...
• bounce v. 1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'.
  See also bounce message. 2. [Stanford] To play volleyball....
• SAIL /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ n. 1. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab.
  An important site in the early development of LISP...
• TMRC /tmerk'/ n. The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the wellsprings of hacker culture.
  The 1959 "Dictionary of the TMRC Language" compiled by Peter Samson included several terms that became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see esp....