HAL 9000 BIRTHDAY MOVIE

Unlike most science-fiction movies, Stork says, '2001' succeeds because the people who made the film worked strenuously to incorporate into it real science and technology it has even been used in the training of NASA astronauts. How real was HAL and how close are computer scientists to creating one, Stork asks. Clarke novel on which '2001: A Space Odyssey' was based, HAL became operational in January 1997.įor Stork, HAL's birthday is a prime time to look back and compare the 1968 film's computer science 'predictions' with current technological fact. the Orrin Foster Lecture Fund, and the UB Sesquicentennial Planning Committee.Īccording to the Arthur C. Principal funding for the series is provided by the Cowper-Siegfried Company, Inc. Cowper Distinguished Visiting Lecture Series. Stork will discuss the Ricoh speechreading system, potential commercial applications and future research.įree and open to the public, both talks are part of the 1997 John W. Stork, author of 'HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality' (MIT Press, October 1996), is a chief scientist at the Ricoh California Research Center, head of its Machine Learning and Perception Group and a consulting professor of electrical engineering and visiting scholar in psychology at Stanford University.įor a more technically proficient audience, Stork will present a talk on 'Seeing Speech: Speechreading ('Lipreading') by Computer' at 3 p.m.

in Room 215 of the Natural Sciences Complex on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Stork will deliver a lecture for general audiences, entitled 'The Hal 9000 Computer and the Vision of '2001: A Space Odyssey',' at 7:30 p.m.

HAL 9000 BIRTHDAY MOVIE

The Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University at Buffalo is marking the 'birthday' of the infamous talking computer, HAL, of the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey,' by presenting two lectures by author and scientist David G.

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