IBM

...is far creepier than 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...

In this article: Iphone, HAL 9000, and BlackBerry

The song they'd chosen - "Daisy Bell" - dates back to 1892. Seventy years later, it became the first song that the world's first singing computer, the IBM 704, would sing. (It's also the song that Hal 9000 sings at the end of 2001: A...

In this article: Daisy Bell, Carbon, Arthritis, HAL 9000, Michael Phelps, and 2001: A Space Odyssey

...however, still read "HAL 9000". Although it is often conjectured that the name HAL was based on a one-letter shift from the name IBM, this has been denied by both Clarke and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick. In '''', Clarke speaks through the...

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

In the patent, IBM describes how you can dupe others into believing they're dealing with a real, live human being by using markup language to feign sadness, anger, laughter, filled pauses (uh, um), breaths, coughs and hesitations (mmm).

In this article: Cough and Hal-9000

...and Frank Poole) and HAL 9000. In the book IBM predicted that computer development would have advanced to such an extent that the mission could be undertaken with all the astronauts placed in hibernation. It was said to be desired,...

In this article: David Bowman, HAL, Jupiter, Alexei Leonov, Heywood Floyd, HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Saturn, Neutron, and Paranoia