HAL 9000

HAL 9000 [Heuristically - Programmed - Algorithmic - Computer] capable of speech recognition, facial recognition, and natural language processing, lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions and reasoning.Hal is an artificial intelligence, the sentient on-board computer of the spaceship Discovery.After Hal appears to be mistaken about a fault in the spacecraft, astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole consider disconnecting his cognitive circuits. They believe that Hal cannot hear them, but are unaware that Hal is capable of lip reading.Faced with the prospect of disconnection, Hal decides to kill the astronauts, in order to protect and continue the directive he is programmed with. Hal proceeds to kill Poole while Poole is repairing the ship.As well as the other members of the crew who are in suspended animation by disabling life support systems for the suspended animation chambers the crew is placed in.Hal's central core is depicted as a room full of brightly lit computer modules mounted in arrays from which they can be inserted or removed. Bowman shuts down Hal by removing modules from service one by one; as he does so, Hal's consciousness degrades.By the time Hal's logic is completely gone...