HAL 9000

...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

...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

...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

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

...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

...high speed 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 mean the ability to run...

In this article: Purdue University, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, National Science Foundation, Joint venture, Climate change, and H1N1

...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

Washington, August 20 : A computer similar to the Hal 9000 system in the movie '2010', which claims enjoying working with human beings and having stimulating relationships with them, may soon be created, thanks to a new research project.

In this article: HAL 9000, Oregon State University, National Science Foundation, Punjab, West Bengal, Washington, and India

...that we expect so much from "Moon." Jones borrows tones from these movies. Gerty, voiced by Kevin Spacey, seems like a beta version of HAL 9000; Sam's humanity and love for his family become more phantom after the doppelganger shows up.

In this article: Moon, Moon, Clint Mansell, Sam Rockwell, HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Andrei Tarkovsky

...of the new lunar station was influenced by the "2001" ship, and the station itself is supervised by Gerty, sort of a scaled-down HAL 9000 that scoots around. At some point in the future (we can't nail down the story's time frame), this...

In this article: Bruce Dern, Kevin Spacey, Sam Rockwell, Nuclear fusion, HAL 9000, Dave Bowman, Sony, and Douglas Trumbull