MOVIE 2001: The Space Odyssey. Anyone know how/why they came 2 name the rogue Co!
Question: MOVIE 2001: The Space Odyssey!. Anyone know how/why they came 2 name the rogue Computer aboard the spaceship!?!?
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this is taken from the HAL 9000 wikipedia page
"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 2010: Odyssey Two, Clarke speaks through the character of Dr!. Chandra, who characterized this idea as: "[u]tter nonsense! [!.!.!.] I thought that by now every intelligent person knew that H-A-L is derived from Heuristic ALgorithmic"!.[2][3]
Clarke more directly addressed this issue in his book The Lost Worlds of 2001:[4]
As is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), HAL stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer!. 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 !.!.!. 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!."
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"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 2010: Odyssey Two, Clarke speaks through the character of Dr!. Chandra, who characterized this idea as: "[u]tter nonsense! [!.!.!.] I thought that by now every intelligent person knew that H-A-L is derived from Heuristic ALgorithmic"!.[2][3]
Clarke more directly addressed this issue in his book The Lost Worlds of 2001:[4]
As is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), HAL stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer!. 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 !.!.!. 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!."
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HAL was an acronym for something which I can't recall but Hal's glitch was explained in the sequel, which I enjoyed much more than the original!.Www@Enter-QA@Com