HAL 9000

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

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