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...landed there, a year after the movie was released. Still, Clarke and Stanley Kubrick nailed the feel of space travel, and its eventual commercialization, in a way that still resonates today. And HAL 9000's calculated mutiny is plausible...

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...any work a man can do." Their predictions were the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's character HAL 9000, who accurately embodied what AI researchers believed they could create by the year 2001. Of note is the fact that...

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...all: HAL 9000 from the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Although the voice was performed by an actor, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke saw fit to make the computer's speech sound unmistakeably synthetic--HAL speaks in an unwavering calm...

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...required for space communications. Even in the late 1960s, when Clarke collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay to "2001: A Space Odyssey," he assumed that computers would, over time, get bigger. "The HAL 9000 computer fills half...

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...time in the period 1912-14. Arthur C. Clarke's epic (novel and movie) had the fictional computer HAL 9000, which became operational on January 12, 1997 (1992 in the movie) at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois. HAL was created by Dr. Chandra...

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...game in "2001-A Space Odyssey". It's said the creators of the film, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick put in a chess playing computer as a joke because they thought no computer would ever play chess well. Well, chess is played pretty...

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...vocoder recreated the song Daisy Bell, with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Arthur C. Clarke of 2001: A Space Odyssey '' fame was coincidentally visiting friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility...

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...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...

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...someone has a bad feeling about something. The character named Dave may be a reference to Dave Bowman , the human protagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's , who shuts down the AI computer system HAL 9000. Also, when Giles and Ms Calender perform the...

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