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Happy Birthday HAL-9000!

Yes! The computer from “2001, A space Odyssey” (the book from Arthur C. Clarke and the movie from Stanley Kubrick) was offically born (first powered) on 12th January 1992. So, it is exactly 15-year old today. Happy birthday HAL-9000!

HAL-9000 - The computer from '2001, A space Odyssey'

There, HAL-9000 is an Artificial Intelligence computer (the AI word was common then) that takes its own destinay in its virtual hands while killing the human astronauts on board a futuristic spaceship.

I recommend specially both the novel and the movie.

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2 responses to “Happy Birthday HAL-9000!”

  1. Tom Avatar
    Tom

    Sorry , but the movie was released in 1968, for one dollar you could attend a matinee at one of the many many theaters there were at the time. I saw it while home for christmas from RVN, in Dallas Texas Jan 69

  2. Yves Roumazeilles Avatar
    Yves Roumazeilles

    The movie was done in 1968. But you did not actually listen to the information given *in* the movie about when HAL-9000 was first powered up.

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