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re: 2001 and A Clockwork Orange
Posted on 7/12/10 at 11:41 am to rondo
Posted on 7/12/10 at 11:41 am to rondo
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Did you know the name given to HAL is a direct call out of IBM?
I think that I read an interview somewhere with Clarke where he said that the letters HAL being related to IBM was purely coincidental.
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Posted on 7/12/10 at 11:43 am to Geauxldineye
That is a pretty big coincidence
Posted on 7/12/10 at 11:43 am to Geauxldineye
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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.[1] 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]
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