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PopMatters | 1 week ago

We Live in Public (Review)

...Harris, the central figure of We Live in Public, also became operational in the early 1990s, and like Vinge and HAL, his prophetic voice would prove to be revelatory as the future...

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Nintendo Wii Fanboy | 3 weeks ago

Picross 3D shaping up for May 3 release

...looking for a way to tease your brain into an overloaded, catatonic state while on the go, Nintendo and HAL Laboratory will soon deliver an application that should aid in your endeavor.

"It was tough for me to see that every time I made a new game, people automatically assumed that a sequel was coming," said Sakurai on August 26, 2003, in an interview with Nintendo Dream, two weeks after his resignation from HAL Laboratory. "Even if it's a sequel (laughs), lots of people have to give their all to make a game, but some people think the sequel process happens naturally."

Masahiro Sakurai Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Columbus Dispatch | 3 weeks ago

Toyota glitch tip of iceberg

...it was "by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error." Of course, HAL was "self-aware" and became more than just a little dangerous, killing four...

Philly.com | 1 month ago

Like it or not, tech is taking over your car

...HAL 9000 claimed it was "by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error." Of course, HAL was "self-aware" and became more than just a little dangerous, killing...

IGN | 1 month ago

Wii Sales Overtake Original NES

...Corporate Planning Division. Iwata's background in videogaming goes back to the early 1980s -- he joined HAL Laboratory after university and in 1983 began coordinating the software...

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

HAL Laboratory

...as well as HAL Laboratory. Some of its early titles were also released as HAL America, a North American subsidiary of the company. The current president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, was...

Forbes.com News | 1 month ago

The Computer Name Game

...a PowerBook G3, one of the cool ones in the Wallstreet Series. I called it HAL, set the desktop image to a screenshot of HAL 9000's iconic red eye, and installed system sounds so it would...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey

...seen to be mouthing his moves to himself during the game and it is later revealed that HAL can lip read. HAL's conversation with Dave Bowman just before the diagnostic error of the AE-35...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

HAL 9000

...shuts down HAL by removing modules from service one by one; as he does so, HAL's consciousness degrades. HAL regurgitates material that was programmed into him early in his memory,...

Joystiq | 2 months ago

Rumor: Picross 3D in Europe this February

...the date as "TBA", Cubed3 reports that Nintendo has confirmed the February 5 date. Picross 3D, developed by HAL Laboratory, is based on the familiar Picross puzzle, in which players make...

CNET News.com | 3 months ago

IBM: Envisioning the world's fastest supercomputer

...like the HAL 9000 series, will be able to do massively complex calculations in an instant and, like HAL, be built in Urbana-Champaign. It is being housed in a special building on...

Times Online | 9 months ago

How Nintendo's boss rewrote the rules of the game

...originally an engineer," he tells me, "and I joined a small company called HAL after university… In 1992, HAL was facing a financial crisis, and I was appointed president in order to...