60 Years of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford

Entering its seventh decade of innovation in all things artificial intelligence, Stanford reflects on the people who made it possible and the milestones along the way.
This Emmy Award-winning video looks back at a remarkable six decades of artificial intelligence work at Stanford University. Stanford has been a leader in AI almost since the day the term was dreamed up by John McCarthy in the 1950s. McCarthy would join the Stanford faculty in 1962 and found the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), initiating a six-decades-plus legacy of innovation. Over the years, the field has grown to welcome a diversity of researchers and areas of exploration, including robotics, autonomous vehicles, medical diagnostics, natural language processing, and more. All the while, Stanford has been at the forefront in research and in educating the next generation of innovators in AI. Artificial intelligence would not be what it is today without Stanford.
This video is a joint production of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) and Stanford Video.
Producers: Yingqian Winny Lucas, Christopher Manning, Nelly Elespuru, Stacy Pena, Chandra Simon Ritvo, Amy Hu
Director of Photography: David Dellaria and Tim Neff
Editor: Yingqian Winny Lucas and Amy Hu
In addition to a 2023 Emmy Award for the Northern California region, in the category of Science and Technology, this video received the following accolades:
-Gold Telly Winner in Non-Broadcast - Documentary: Short Form (Under 40 Minutes)
-Silver Telly Winner in Non-Broadcast - Educational Institution