HAL became operational in Urbana, Illinois at the HAL Plant ( the University of Illinois ' Coordinated Science Laboratory, where the ILLIAC computers were built ).

DocBook began in 1991 in discussion groups on Usenet and evenually became a joint project of HAL Computer Systems and O ' Reilly & Associates and eventually spawned its own maintenance organization ( the Davenport Group ) before moving in 1998 to the SGML Open consortium, which subsequently became OASIS.

In 1989, HAL became a wholly owned subsidiary of Carnival Corp.

The team soon became an auxiliary program unit for Nintendo ( like HAL Laboratory originally ) that provided system tools and hired people to program, fix, or port Nintendo-developed software.

HAL became a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc in 1989.

HAL became a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu.

Throughout the 1990s out-of-order execution became more common, and was featured in the IBM / Motorola PowerPC 601 ( 1993 ), Fujitsu / HAL SPARC64 ( 1995 ), Intel Pentium Pro ( 1995 ), MIPS R10000 ( 1996 ), HP PA-8000 ( 1996 ), AMD K5 ( 1996 ) and DEC Alpha 21264 ( 1998 ).

The incorporeal Floyd also became reacquainted with the incorporeal forms of Bowman and HAL.

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

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.

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.

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.

Development on EarthBound took place as a joint effort between Ape, Inc. and HAL Laboratory, Inc. and was designed by Shigesato Itoi, APE programmer Kouji Malta and HAL programmer Satoru Iwata, both of whom were the main programmers for EarthBound.

Ape had more people working on the title and oversaw the data aspects of the game while HAL worked on the programming.

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.

After India gained independence in 1947, the management of the company was passed over to the Government of India and was renamed as Hindustan Aeronautics Limited ( HAL ) on 1 October 1964 when Hindustan Aircraft Limited was merged with the Aircraft manufacturing Depot, Kanpur.

By 2012, HAL was reportedly been bogged down in the details of production and has been slipping on its schedules.

* 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 is a mostly free-form language: statements may begin anywhere on a line and may spill over the next lines, and multiple statements may be fit onto the same line if required.

Since the principal architect of HAL was Jim Miller, who co-authored with Hal Laning a report on the MAC system, it is a reasonable speculation that the space shuttle language is named for Jim's old mentor, and not, as some have suggested, for the electronic superstar of the Arthur Clarke movie " 2001-A Space Odyssey.

He joined the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in 1987 and served as Chief Test Pilot in the HAL Nashik Division until 1992, before moving on to Bangalore to work as the Chief Test Pilot of HAL.

A hardware abstraction layer ( HAL ) is an abstraction layer, implemented in software, between the physical hardware of a computer and the software that runs on that computer.

For example, the SGI Intel x86-based workstations were not IBM PC compatible workstations, but due to the HAL, Windows NT was able to run on them.

Frank manages to conscript Bowman and HAL, who had fused into a new entity — Halman — and now reside in the monolith's computational matrix, to infect the monolith with a computer virus retrieved from Pico vault, a special containment facility on the moon used to house various chemical, biological, and cybernetic weapons in an attempt to avert a potential apocalypse.

In 2006, the THL-20 gun turret was selected by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for use on the HAL Light Combat Helicopter, incorporating the 20 mm M621 cannon.

Of note is the fact that AI pioneer Marvin Minsky was a consultant on the project of making HAL 9000 as realistic as possible according to the consensus predictions of the time ; Crevier quotes him as having said on the subject in 1967, " Within a generation ... the problem of creating ' artificial intelligence ' will substantially be solved ,", although Minsky states that he was misquoted.

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

* January 4-The HAL Light Combat Aircraft's ( LCA's ) first technology demonstrator, TD-1.

Kirby's Dream Land, known as in Japan, is a 1992 third party developed platforming video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy handheld video game console.

Arcana, known in Japan as, is a 1992 RPG for the SNES by HAL Laboratory.

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.

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.

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

Production line of the HAL Dhruv at Bangalore

An Indian Air Force | IAF BAe Hawk being license-produced at the HAL Hawk production facility in Bangalore

" HAL " was suggested as the name of the new language by Ed Copps, a founding director of Intermetrics, to honor Hal Laning, a colleague at MIT.

* the HAL Aerospace Museum, part of the HAL Heritage Centre and Aero Space Museum, located at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in Bangalore, India

Windows Vista and later ( Windows Server 2008 and later for servers ) automatically detect which hardware abstraction layer ( HAL ) should be used at boot time.

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.

Kirby's Dream Land was designed by Masahiro Sakurai, at HAL Laboratory who intended for Kirby's Dream Land to be a simple game that could be played by beginning gamers.

The Corps has an organic Army Aviation Helicopter Squadron based at Sevoke flying the HAL Chetak.

HAL Tejas at Aero India 2009.

( MMI also offered a similar family called HAL, or " hard array logic ", which were like PAL devices except that they were mask-programmed at the factory.

( For large volumes, electrical programming costs could be eliminated by having the manufacturer fabricate a custom metal mask used to program the customers ' patterns at the time of manufacture ; MMI used the term " hard array logic " ( HAL ) to refer to devices programmed in this way.