Title = What do the letters HAL stand for and is there a connection with IBM?Ĭlarke more directly addressed this issue in his book 'The Lost Worlds of 2001': As is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), HAL stands for 'H'euristically programmed 'AL'gorithmic computer. Title = Dawn of HAL: History of Artificial Intelligence - Dr. Chandra, who characterized this idea as: ' tter nonsense! I thought that by now every intelligent person knew that H-A-L is derived from 'H'euristic 'AL'gorithmic'. In '', Clarke speaks through the character of Dr. The camera plates, however, still read 'HAL 9000'.Īlthough 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 the French language version of '', HAL's name is given as 'CARL', for 'Cerveau Analytique de Recherche et de Liaison' ('Analytic Research and Communication Brain'). This is in contrast to the human astronauts, who speak in terse monotone, as do all other actors in the film. He is, however, portrayed with a soft voice and a conversational manner. HAL is never visualized as a single entity. In the '2001' film, HAL is depicted as being capable not only of speech recognition, facial recognition, and natural language processing, but also lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, reasoning, and chess, in addition to maintaining all systems on an interplanetary voyage. DeMet] at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois, and was created by Dr. Title = Meanings: The Search for Meaning in 2001Īuthor = George D. In the book, HAL became operational on Janu(1992 in the movie) [ cite web The voice of HAL 9000 was performed by Canadian actor Douglas Rain. HAL is usually represented only as his television camera 'eyes' that can be seen throughout the 'Discovery' spaceship. HAL is an artificial intelligence, the sentient on-board computer of the spaceship 'Discovery'. It was ranked #13 on a list of greatest film villains of all time on the AFI's 100 Years. The novels, along with two films, begin with '', released in 1968.

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