

They believe that HAL cannot hear them, but are unaware that HAL is capable of lip reading. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole consider disconnecting HAL's cognitive circuits when he appears to be mistaken in reporting the presence of a fault in the spacecraft's communications antenna.
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As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.Īlso, IBM is indeed in the movie 2001, as are many other real companies.
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However, about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution. Ĭlarke more directly addressed this issue in his book The Lost Worlds of 2001: Īs is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), HAL stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. Chandra, who characterized this idea as: "tter nonsense! I thought that by now every intelligent person knew that H-A-L is derived from Heuristic ALgorithmic". In 2010: Odyssey Two, 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 2001: A Space Odyssey, 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. 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. In the book, HAL became operational on Janu( 1992 in the movie) at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois. 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 ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) 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 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968. HAL 9000 is a fictional computer in Arthur C.
