As a recreational activity, Frank Poole plays chess against HAL. In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), HAL is initially considered a dependable member of the crew, maintaining ship functions and engaging genially with his human crew-mates on an equal footing. The film says this occurred in 1992, while the book gives 1997 as HAL's birth year. HAL became operational in Urbana, Illinois, at the HAL Plant (the University of Illinois's Coordinated Science Laboratory, where the ILLIAC computers were built). 1.3 2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final OdysseyĪppearances 2001: A Space Odyssey (film/novel).
In addition to maintaining the Discovery One spacecraft systems during the interplanetary mission to Jupiter (or Saturn in the novel), HAL has been shown to be capable of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, natural language processing, lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting emotional behaviours, automated reasoning, spacecraft piloting and playing chess. The activation year was 1991 in earlier screenplays and changed to 1997 in Clarke's novel written and released in conjunction with the movie. In the film, HAL became operational on 12 January 1992 at the HAL Laboratories in Urbana, Illinois as production number 3. HAL speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole. HAL 9000 is voiced by Douglas Rain in the two feature film adaptations of the Space Odyssey series. While part of HAL's hardware is shown toward the end of the film, he is mostly depicted as a camera lens containing a red or yellow dot, with such units located throughout the ship. First appearing in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a sentient artificial general intelligence computer that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew. HAL 9000 is a fictional artificial intelligence character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. 2 × Ground based HAL 9000 used by Mission Control.
According to Wikipedia, the original HAL lens and another prop were purchased for just ten shillings (£0.50).įor the iconic scenes shot from HAL’s point-of-view, Kubrick opted for a different lens, instead using a a Cinerama 160-degree Fairchild-Curtis wide-angle, as that was the only suitably wide option for the cameras he used. Given that a Nikkor 8mm f/2.8 will generally cost you in the neighborhood of $2000-$3000, it’s probably better that ThinkGeek came up with their own version. This bizarre little factoid came out of the company ThinkGeek, who make a replica HAL for sale. HAL was built using a Nikon 8mm f/2.8 fisheye, with an incredibly bulbous front element. But that smooth piece of glass that made up HAL’s eye into the corridors of Discovery One? It turns out that’s a far more familiar - but still rather rare - piece of hardware. The all-seeing computer eye from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Oddysey is as famed for his cool demeanor as for his baleful red glare. HAL 9000 is one of cinema’s most iconic villains.
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