HAL 9000
Fictional Character
Motorola Droid Takes Aim at iPhone with Google Mobile Services...are trying to create a brand to compete with the iPhone. The box for the Droid looks like a friendlier version of the packaging that the HAL-9000 from "2001" might have come in. The Droid s form-factor features a 3.7-inch touch-screen. In this article: Iphone, Motorola, Microsoft Office, Google Talk, Amazon.com, YouTube, All rights reserved, Trademark, and Google Calendar |
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AdFreak | November 09, 2009
Droid phone will enthrall and/or enslave you
...intelligence of 2001, and you get mcgarrybowen's launch spot (posted below) for Verizon's much-ballyhooed Droid phone. (I swear that's HAL 9000's all-seeing red eye about 22 seconds in.) It picks up the dark and industrial vibe from the...
In this article: All rights reserved, HAL 9000, Nielsen, John Hodgman, Apple, Justin Long, and Cleveland
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
HAL 9000 in popular culture
...believing that they intend to kill Joel. In an episode of Archie's Weird Mysteries, a device called the Stanley 9000, based on HAL 9000, and is used to make service in a burger joint quicker and efficient. It later becomes evil after...
In this article: HAL, HAL 9000, Gypsy, Kyle, Cartman, The Cardigans, Wall-e, and Portal
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Valleywag | November 02, 2009
When Singing Computers Were Truly Menacing
...your video-capable iPhone could ever be. This IBM was not only the first singing computer, it was also the inspiration for 2001's homicidal HAL 9000. Despite the explosion in networking and processing power in the decades since that film...
In this article: Iphone, IBM, HAL 9000, and BlackBerry
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Wired: Gadget Lab | October 16, 2009
Video: Swift, Indestructible Cockroach-Robots. The End Is Nigh
...end of days is nigh. Equip a swarm of these with lasers and it's all over for mankind. For best effect, listen to the chillingly HAL 9000-like voice of the video's narrator along with Brian Eno's 2001 album Drawn From Life. Shiver. If...
In this article: E mail, Wired.com, Carbon, Polymer, HAL 9000, University of California, and Brian Eno
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Seeking Alpha | October 06, 2009
S&P 500 Rallies; Mass Unemployment Is 'So Last Week'
...potentially setting up a double top formation. That is a lot of gobbley gook if you don't bother with technical analysis but trust me, HAL9000 and his computers know what it means. If Larry Summers still has the reins, S&P 1080 will be...
In this article: S&P, Unemployment, S&P 500, Recession, Hal9000, and Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Wikipedia | September 29, 2009
Poole - HAL 9000
Poole - HAL 9000 is a fictional chess game in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey . In the movie, the astronaut Frank Poole is seen playing chess with the HAL 9000 supercomputer. As HAL is supposed to be infallible, no one is surprised when HAL...
In this article: Frank Poole, HAL, HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Roesch, Stanley Kubrick, and Hamburg
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Hack a Day | September 29, 2009
Make an Arduino talk to you
...of the highlights from the Music Hack Day in Berlin was the Arduino singing "Daisy Bell". If you don't know, this is an homage to the HAL 9000 in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey; an artificial intelligence that was taught the song in its...
In this article: Daisy Bell, HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Transformers, and Berlin
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Seeking Alpha | September 10, 2009
A Much-Needed Word from John Bogle and Warren Buffett on Short-Term Markets
...point. Lamenting short-term corporate thinking is nothing new. This article could have been written 30 years ago (save for the HAL 9000 part and the daily call to the workers of the world), although in those days, the Japanese were the...
In this article: Warren Buffett, Tax, HAL 9000, Derivative, Washington D.C, Louis Gerstner, New York Stock Exchange, Berkshire Hathaway, and IBM
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Indy Star | September 09, 2009
IU gets $10.1M grant for supercomputer network
...networks, we'll be able to make them work together." Say the word "supercomputer," and many people may think of omnipresent HAL 9000, from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." But in reality, supercomputers represent the ability to...
In this article: Indiana University, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Purdue University, National Science Foundation, Joint venture, Climate change, and H1N1
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Medical News Today | August 21, 2009
'Rich Interaction' May Make Computers A Partner, Not A Product
Article Date: 21 Aug 2009 - 0:00 PDT In the movie "2010," while trying to salvage the mission to Jupiter, the Hal 9000 computer noted, "I enjoy working with human beings, and have stimulating relationships with them." Well, 2010 is just...
In this article: Medical advice, City University London, HAL 9000, Oregon State University, YouTube, Facebook, and National Science Foundation
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HAL 9000 (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) is a fictional computer in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey saga. The novels, along with two films, begin with 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968. It was ranked #13 on a list of greatest film villains of all time on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains.
HAL is an artificial intelligence, the sentient on-board computer of the spaceship Discovery. HAL is usually represented only as his television camera "eyes" that can be seen throughout the Discovery spaceship. The voice of HAL 9000 was performed by Canadian actor Douglas Rain. In the book, HAL became operational on January 12, 1997 (1992 in the movie) at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois, and was created by Dr. Chandra. In the 2001 film, HAL is depicted as being capable not only of speech recognition, facial recognition, and natural language processing, but also lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, reasoning, and chess, in addition to maintaining all systems on an interplanetary voyage.
HAL is never visualized as a single entity. He is, however, portrayed with a soft voice and a conversational manner. This is in contrast to the human astronauts, who speak in terse monotone, as do all other actors in the film.
In the French language version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL's name is given as "CARL", for Cerveau Analytique de Recherche et de Liaison ("Analytic Research and Communication Brain"). The camera plates, however, still read "HAL 9000".
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