In the 1982 novel 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's first sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 is described by Dr. Chandra as being caught in a " Hofstadter – Möbius loop ".

He has to interact with both a human crewmate and an intelligent supercomputer named HAL 9000.

The HAL 9000 computer utility suffers an apparent malfunction which leads to the death of all humans on board except David Bowman.

In the French-language version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL's name is CARL, Cerveau Analytique de Recherche et de Liaison ( Analytic Brain for Research and Communication ), however, the television camera eye plates read " HAL 9000 ".

* In the 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey ( and the corresponding 1968 film ), a spaceship's onboard computer, HAL 9000, attempts to kill all its crew members.

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Clarke was so impressed by the demonstration that he used it in the climactic scene of his screenplay for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the HAL 9000 computer sings the same song as it is being put to sleep by astronaut Dave Bowman.

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Arthur C. Clarke of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame was coincidentally visiting friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility at the time of this remarkable speech synthesis demonstration and was so impressed that he used it in the climactic scene of his novel and screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the HAL 9000 computer sings the same song.

Corey Burton's voice performance as Brainiac was done in the same cold, low-affect style as HAL 9000 in the Space Odyssey films, and was also modeled after the ' Control Voice ' heard during the opening narration of The Outer Limits.

In an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, Hopkins said that he used the characteristics of Katharine Hepburn and HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey as inspiration for his performance.

* HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Because of this, a convincing villain must be given a characterization that makes his or her or its ( see HAL 9000 ) motive for doing wrong convincing, as well as being a worthy adversary to the hero.

* HAL 9000, a fictional computer in the Space Odyssey series

* HAL 9000 computer, mostly known from the Kubrick's " 2001: Space Odyssey " movie

* Dr. Hal Emmerich, a character in the Metal Gear games, named after HAL 9000

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GameSpot named SHODAN one of the ten best computer game villains and one of the best female characters in gaming, compared her to HAL 9000, though noting that unlike Hal, SHODAN was unquestionably aware of her actions and the consequences of them, describing her as an unforgettable villain due to her personality and adding " is more believable than most game characters are, and in many ways, she actually seems more human.

* HAL 9000, who confronted a similar paradox when told to keep a secret, while being " hardwired " to return information truthfully and without concealment.

Author Arthur C. Clarke was coincidentally visiting friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility at the time of this remarkable speech synthesis demonstration and was so impressed that he later told Stanley Kubrick to use it in 2001: A Space Odyssey, in the climactic scene where the HAL 9000 computer sings while his cognitive functions are disabled.

Shortly after the novel was released, Tom Hanks expressed great interest in producing a film adaptation, with himself cast in the role of Floyd, and Keir Dullea and Douglas Rain reprising their roles as David Bowman and HAL 9000.

Poole and Bowman discuss disconnecting the higher functions of HAL 9000 (" HAL "), the Discovery Ones mainframe computer, after it mistakenly predicts that the AE-35 unit ( an electronic control unit in the spaceship's main antenna ) is going to fail.

In 2061: Odyssey Three, Heywood Floyd is surprised to encounter HAL, now stored alongside Dave Bowman in the Europa monolith.

India delivered HAL Dhruv helicopters and South Africa is about to deliver 12 Atlas Cheetah supersonic-aircraft.

The primary antagonist in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer ) is an artificial intelligence that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew.

Being a computer, HAL has no distinct physical form, though is visually represented as a red television-camera eye located on equipment panels throughout the ship.

HAL is voiced by Douglas Rain in the two film adaptations of the Space Odyssey saga, and speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole, who speak tersely and with little emotional inflection.

In addition to maintaining the Discovery One spacecraft systems during the interplanetary mission to Jupiter, HAL is capable of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, natural language processing, lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting and reproducing emotional behaviours, reasoning, and playing chess.

HAL is listed as the 13th-greatest film villain in the AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Heroes and Villains.

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.

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.

In the followup 1982 novel, 2010: Odyssey Two, and the accompanying 1984 film, 2010, it is revealed that this action was caused by the computer having been programmed with two conflicting objectives: to fully disclose all its information, and to keep the true purpose of the flight secret from the crew ; this conflict caused HAL to become paranoid and eventually homicidal.

The festival is a direct descendant of a program put on at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 called Cyberfest which used the supposed birthday of HAL ( the computer in the 2001 film ) to highlight the University's involvement in the history of computers and computing.

EarthBound, originally released as in Japan, is a role-playing video game co-developed by Ape and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console.

Super Smash Bros., known in Japan as, is a fighting game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.

is the main protagonist of Nintendo's Kirby video game series created by Masahiro Sakurai at HAL Laboratory.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited () ( HAL ) () based in Bangalore, India, is one of Asia's largest aerospace companies.

HAL built the first military aircraft in South Asia and is currently involved in the design, fabrication and assembly of aircraft, jet engines, and helicopters, as well as their components and spares.

HAL is one of the largest aerospace companies in Asia with its annual turnover to be running above 2 billion.

Below is a partial list of major operations being undertaken by HAL:

* August 19 – Indian Airlines Flight 557, a HAL 748, is damaged beyond repair when it overruns the runway at Mangalore Airport at Mangalore, India, but all 26 people on board – among them Karnataka state and future Indian government official Veerappa Moily – are uninjured.

HAL / S ( High-order Assembly Language / Shuttle ) is a real-time aerospace programming language, best known for its use in the Space Shuttle program.