Like an ominous obsidian obelisk, the career of Stanley Kubrick towers over cinema history, and none of his films cast a shadow quite as long as that of “2001: A Space Odyssey.” A revelatory picture ...

When the world first witnessed the supercomputer HAL 9000 calmly refuse to help astronaut Dave Bowman in Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, no one could have predicted the legacy of ...

The 1968 film "2001 - A Space Odyssey" featured an "artificial intelligence" computer named HAL 9000. The computer was installed in a space vessel Discovery and was en route to Jupiter when it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1968, a film arrived unlike anything audiences had seen. Directed by Stanley Kubrick and written with science fiction author ...

The best-informed dream : HAL and the vision of 2001 / David G. Stork -- Scientist on the set : an interview with Marvin Minsky / David G. Stork -- Could we build HAL? : supercomputer design / David J ...

In 1968 a film called "2001 - A Space Odyssey" was released. Written by Arthur C Clarke, it tells the story of man's curiosity and his first steps in visiting other worlds. A space vessel is sent to ...