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HAL's Legacy
HAL's Legacy
2001's Computer as Dream and RealityEdited by David G. Stork
1997, MIT Press, ISBN: 0-262-19378-7
Inspired by HAL's self-proclaimed birth date, HAL's Legacy
reflects upon science fiction's most famous computer and explores the
relationship between science fantasy and technological fact. The informative,
nontechnical chapters written especially for this book describe many of the
areas of computer science critical to the design of intelligent machines,
discuss whether scientists in the 1960s were accurate about the prospects for
advancement in their fields, and consider how HAL has influenced scientific
research.
Contributions by leading scientists look at the technologies that would be
critical if we were, as Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrik imagined thirty
years ago, to try to build HAL in 1997: supercomputers, fault tolerance and
reliability, planning, artificial intelligence, lipreading, speach recognition
and synthesis, commonsense reasoning, the ability to recognize and display
emotions, and human-machine interaction. Not only would these technologies be
critical in building HAL, but all are being explored for the design of today's
intelligent machines. A seperate chapter by philosopher Daniel Dennett
considers the ethical implications of intelligent machines.
Profusely illustrated with color images from the film and from current
research, HAL's Legacy provides surprising new perspectives on key
moments in the film -- you will never view 2001 the same way again.
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