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Originally Posted by jasonw,Dec 27 2006, 02:00 PM
HAL's name is from subtracting one char from each letter in "IBM".
It stands for Heuristic and ALgorithmic; the two main forms of AI theory (at the time).
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Originally Posted by 8D_In_Trunk,Dec 28 2006, 12:45 AM
It stands for Heuristic and ALgorithmic; the two main forms of AI theory (at the time).
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Some versions state that the name HAL was derived by a one letter shift (see Caesar cipher) from the name IBM, although this has been denied by both Arthur C. Clarke[2] and his fictional character Dr. Chandra, who states that "by now, any idiot should know that HAL stands for Heuristic ALgorithmic" (2010).
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