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HAL 9000

Index HAL 9000

HAL 9000 is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. [1]

94 relations: A Time Odyssey, Affective computing, AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains, AI control problem, Algorithm, Anderson Mesa Station, Antagonist, Art criticism, Arthur C. Clarke, Artificial general intelligence, Artificial intelligence, Asteroid, Asteroid belt, Astronaut, Athena, Automated reasoning, Barsoom, Candice Bergen, Carnegie Mellon University, Christie's, Cinerama, Cognition, Computer, Computer chess, Computer scientist, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Daisy Bell, Discovery One, Doubleday (publisher), Douglas Rain, Facial recognition system, Fisheye lens, GLaDOS, Herbert A. Simon, Heuristic (computer science), IBM, IBM 704, ILLIAC, Incorporeality, Isaac Asimov, Jipi and the Paranoid Chip, John Larry Kelly Jr., Jupiter, Lego Dimensions, Library of Congress, Lip reading, List of fictional computers, List of minor planets: 8001–9000, List of spacecraft from the Space Odyssey series, Male, ..., Martin Balsam, Marvin Minsky, Max Mathews, Mid-Atlantic accent, Mission control center, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Monolith (Space Odyssey), Moore's law, Morpheus, NASA, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, National security, Natural language processing, Nigel Davenport, Paranoia, Peter Jackson, Point-of-view shot, Poole versus HAL 9000, Portal 2, Saturn, Sentience, Socrates, Space Odyssey, Speech recognition, Speech synthesis, Stanley Kubrick, Stefanie Powers, Stephen Baxter (author), Technological singularity, Theatrical property, Three Laws of Robotics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, Vocoder, Wide-angle lens, Xenophobia, YouTube, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel), 2010: Odyssey Two, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, 2061: Odyssey Three, 3001: The Final Odyssey. Expand index (44 more) »

A Time Odyssey

A Time Odyssey is a series of novels co-written by Arthur C. Clarke (author of 2001: A Space Odyssey) and Stephen Baxter.

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Affective computing

Affective computing (sometimes called artificial emotional intelligence, or emotion AI) is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains

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AI control problem

In artificial intelligence (AI) and philosophy, the AI control problem is the hypothetical puzzle of how to build a superintelligent agent that will aid its creators, and avoid inadvertently building a superintelligence that will harm its creators.

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Algorithm

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is an unambiguous specification of how to solve a class of problems.

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Anderson Mesa Station

Anderson Mesa Station is an astronomical observatory established in 1959 as a dark-sky observing site for Lowell Observatory.

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Antagonist

An antagonist is a character, group of characters, institution or concept that stands in or represents opposition against which the protagonist(s) must contend.

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Art criticism

Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual art.

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Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

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Artificial general intelligence

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals.

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Asteroid

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.

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Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is the circumstellar disc in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.

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Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

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Athena

Athena; Attic Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnā, or Ἀθηναία, Athēnaia; Epic: Ἀθηναίη, Athēnaiē; Doric: Ἀθάνα, Athānā or Athene,; Ionic: Ἀθήνη, Athēnē often given the epithet Pallas,; Παλλὰς is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare, who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

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Automated reasoning

Automated reasoning is an area of computer science and mathematical logic dedicated to understanding different aspects of reasoning.

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Barsoom

Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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Candice Bergen

Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress and former fashion model.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (commonly known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Christie's

Christie's is a British auction house.

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Cinerama

Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146° of arc.

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Cognition

Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".

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Computer

A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.

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Computer chess

Computer chess is a game of computer architecture encompassing hardware and software capable of playing chess autonomously without human guidance.

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Computer scientist

A computer scientist is a person who has acquired the knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application.

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Coordinated Science Laboratory

The Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) is a major scientific research laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Daisy Bell

"Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" is a popular song, written in 1892 by British songwriter Harry Dacre, with the well-known chorus, "Daisy, Daisy / Give me your answer, do.

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Discovery One

The United States Spacecraft Discovery One was a nuclear-powered interplanetary fictional spaceship controlled by the AI onboard computer HAL 9000 from the first two novels of the Space Odyssey series and the movies 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States.

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Douglas Rain

Douglas Rain (born March 13, 1928) is a Canadian actor and narrator.

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Facial recognition system

A facial recognition system is a technology capable of identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source.

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Fisheye lens

A fisheye lens is an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image.

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GLaDOS

GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and '''D'''isk '''O'''perating '''S'''ystem) is a fictional artificially intelligent computer system from the video game series Portal.

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Herbert A. Simon

Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American economist and political scientist whose primary interest was decision-making within organizations and is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing".

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Heuristic (computer science)

In computer science, artificial intelligence, and mathematical optimization, a heuristic (from Greek εὑρίσκω "I find, discover") is a technique designed for solving a problem more quickly when classic methods are too slow, or for finding an approximate solution when classic methods fail to find any exact solution.

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IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.

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IBM 704

The IBM 704, introduced by IBM in 1954, is the first mass-produced computer with floating-point arithmetic hardware.

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ILLIAC

ILLIAC (Illinois Automatic Computer) was a series of supercomputers built at a variety of locations, some at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Incorporeality

Incorporeal or uncarnate means without a physical body, presence or form.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Jipi and the Paranoid Chip

"Jipi and the Paranoid Chip" is a science fiction short story by Neal Stephenson that appeared in Forbes magazine's July 7, 1997 issue.

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John Larry Kelly Jr.

John Larry Kelly Jr. (1923–1965), was a scientist who worked at Bell Labs.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Lego Dimensions

Lego Dimensions is a Lego-themed action-adventure video game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox One and Xbox 360.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Lip reading

Lip-reading, also known as lipreading or speechreading, is a technique of understanding speech by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face and tongue when normal sound is not available.

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List of fictional computers

Computers have often been used as fictional objects in literature, movies and in other forms of media.

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List of minor planets: 8001–9000

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List of spacecraft from the Space Odyssey series

Various fictional spacecraft have appeared in the Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke.

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Male

A male (♂) organism is the physiological sex that produces sperm.

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Martin Balsam

Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American character actor.

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Marvin Minsky

Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts concerning AI and philosophy.

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Max Mathews

Max Vernon Mathews (born November 13, 1926 in Columbus, Nebraska, USA – April 21, 2011 in San Francisco, CA, USA) was a pioneer of computer music.

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Mid-Atlantic accent

The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent, is a consciously acquired accent of English, intended to blend together the "standard" speech of both American English and British Received Pronunciation.

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Mission control center

A mission control center (MCC, sometimes called a flight control center or operations center) is a facility that manages space flights, usually from the point of launch until landing or the end of the mission.

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MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is a research institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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Monolith (Space Odyssey)

In Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey, Monoliths are machines built by an unseen extraterrestrial species.

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Moore's law

Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years.

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Morpheus

Morpheus is a Greek god of dreams who appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances research, science and engineering based in the United States of America.

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National security

National security refers to the security of a nation state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, and is regarded as a duty of government.

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Natural language processing

Natural language processing (NLP) is an area of computer science and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, in particular how to program computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data.

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Nigel Davenport

Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – 25 October 2013) was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.

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Paranoia

Paranoia is an instinct or thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality.

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Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and film producer.

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Point-of-view shot

A point of view shot (also known as POV shot, first-person shot or a subjective camera) is a short film scene that shows what a character (the subject) is looking at (represented through the camera).

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Poole versus HAL 9000

Poole versus HAL 9000 is a fictional chess game in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Astronaut Dr. Frank Poole is seen playing a recreational game of chess with the HAL 9000 supercomputer.

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Portal 2

Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Valve Corporation.

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Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.

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Sentience

Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive or experience subjectively.

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Socrates

Socrates (Sōkrátēs,; – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher, of the Western ethical tradition of thought.

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Space Odyssey

The Space Odyssey series is a series of science fiction novels by the writer Arthur C. Clarke.

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Speech recognition

Speech recognition is the inter-disciplinary sub-field of computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enables the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers.

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Speech synthesis

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Stefanie Powers

Stefanie Powers (born Stefanie Zofya Paul; November 2, 1942) is an American actress best known for her role as Jennifer Hart in the American mystery series Hart to Hart, with Robert Wagner, which aired for five seasons from 1979 to 1984.

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Stephen Baxter (author)

Stephen Baxter (born 13 November 1957) is an English hard science fiction author.

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Technological singularity

The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity) is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence (ASI) will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.

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Theatrical property

A prop, formally known as (theatrical) property, is an object used on stage or on screen by actors during a performance or screen production.

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Three Laws of Robotics

The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or known as Asimov's Laws) are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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Urbana, Illinois

Urbana is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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Vocoder

A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice encoder) is a category of voice codec that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption, voice transformation, etc.

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Wide-angle lens

In photography and cinematography, a wide-angle lens refers to a lens whose focal length is substantially smaller than the focal length of a normal lens for a given film plane.

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Xenophobia

Xenophobia is the fear and distrust of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey is a science-fiction narrative, produced in 1968 as both a novel, written by Arthur C. Clarke, and a film, directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (film)

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.

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2010: Odyssey Two

2010: Odyssey Two is a 1982 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.

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2010: The Year We Make Contact

2010, often styled with its promotional tagline 2010: The Year We Make Contact, is a 1984 science fiction film written, produced and directed by Peter Hyams.

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2061: Odyssey Three

2061: Odyssey Three is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1987.

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3001: The Final Odyssey

3001: The Final Odyssey is a 1997 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000

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