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HAL's legacy : 2001ʹs computer as dream and reality
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HAL's legacy : 2001ʹs computer as dream and reality

Author: David G Stork
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A look at the technologies that would be critical for building computers like HAL from "2001: a space Odyssey". Topics include articical intelligence, speech recognition and synthesis, and human-machine interaction. Stork also looks at how the book has influenced research.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David G Stork
ISBN: 0262193787 9780262193788
OCLC Number: 35043120
Description: xxi, 384 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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. Kuck --
"Foolproof and incapable of error?" : reliable computing and fault tolerance / Ravishankar K. Iyer --
"An enjoyable game" : how HAL plays chess / Murray S. Campbell --
"The talking computer" : text to speech synthesis / Joseph P. Olive --
When will HAL understand what we are saying? : computer speech recognition and understanding / Raymond Kurzweil --
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" : how could HAL use language / Roger C. Schank --
From 2001 to 2001 : common sense and the mind of HAL / Douglas B. Lenat --
Eyes for computers : how HAL could "see" / Azriel Rosenfeld --
"I could see your lips move" : HAL and speechreading / David G. Stork --
Living in space : working with the machines of the future / Donald A. Norman --
Does HAL cry digital tears? : emotions and computers / Rosalind W. Picard --
"That's something I could not allow to happen" : HAL and planning / David E. Wilkins --
Computers, science, and extraterrestrials : an interview with Stephen Wolfram / David G. Stork --
When HAL kills, who's to blame? : computer ethics / Daniel C. Dennett.
Responsibility: edited by David G. Stork.

Abstract:

A look at the technologies that would be critical for building computers like HAL from "2001: a space Odyssey". Topics include articical intelligence, speech recognition and synthesis, and human-machine interaction. Stork also looks at how the book has influenced research.

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