Incrementing each letter of "HAL" gives you "IBM". Arthur C. Clarke (co-screenwriter) claimed this was unintentional, and if he had noticed it before it was too late, he would have changed it. HAL stands for Heuristic ALgorithmic Computer. - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/trivia ********** 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). - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000 ********** The name HAL is an amalgam of "heuristic" and "algorithmic," the two main processes of learning. - http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/video_detail/2001/ ******** HAL on AnswerPool
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