HAL Laboratory

...designer of the HAL computer, as well as its mentor (it is suggested in 2010 that he was already working on the next generation HAL computer, HAL 10000). Dr. Chandra probably has no family or children; it is remarked several times during the...

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...be inserted or removed. Bowman 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, including announcing the date...

In this article: HAL, David Bowman, HAL 9000, IBM, Arthur C. Clarke, Dr. Chandra, Socrates, Stanley Kubrick, and Athena

...the cursor with his left eye. The computer then types the letters and reads the sentences aloud in a generic voice, sounding like HAL in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey. '' Donated by a Connecticut-based nonprofit group called "Voices For...

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...information and come out with different answers. The explanation, of course, is that there is a big difference between R2D2 and HAL. You know those quirky computers and their personalities. The one certainty for the Frogs and Boise...

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...only the fourth president of Nintendo in 113 years - is named the new president and CEO. Iwata was previously a videogame maker at HAL Laboratory before moving to Nintendo in 2000 as head of its planning division. Nintendo DS 2004:...

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...has become ubiquitous. Home networking With so many of our memories being made in "the digital'' these days, perhaps it's time to invite HAL into our homes to keep track of it all. Lenovo (www.lenovo.com) last week announced an...

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...that prepares his meals, cuts his hair and speaks to him in the mellifluous voice of Kevin Spacey (doing his best imitation of 2001 's HAL). Gerty is a pleasant companion, for a machine, but ''I'm talking to myself on a regular basis,'' Sam...

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...planning as the head of the 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 production and development of...

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...opinion about the digital revolution. Live From Redmond: Microsoft's Turner, Bach, Mundie Talk Strong, Play Games and Introduce Us to HAL Posted on July 30, 2009 at 12:11 PM PT While Microsoft COO Kevin Turner did a kind of modified...

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...a high-quality headset or mic like the Blue Microphones Snowflake I had sitting around. I found HAL's interface a tad clunky. For instance, when HAL chattered on about something, sometimes the text display didn't scroll along with HAL's...

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