Events and Publications







1998

January

  • 9 (Friday) 11:30-12:30 "From HAL to Interforms: Human interfaces in science fiction and reality", lecture by David G. Stork at IUI98, Intelligent User Interfaces 98, Mark-Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, CA.

  • 12 (Monday) HAL's first birthday.

  • 13 (Tuesday) 7:30pm "From HAL to HCI: Human-computer interfaces in science fiction and reality," Bay Area Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interactions, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA.(Review by Stephen Attaway).

  • Mention of HAL's Legacy in "Thinking about emotional machines" (review of "Affective Computing" by Rosalind Picard), pp. 65-66 in Technology Review magazine.

February


  • 17 (Tuesday) 6pm The HAL 9000 and the vision of 2001: A Space Odyssey, lecture at Soda Hall's Hewlett-Packard Auditorium, University of California, Berkeley.

  • 19 (Thursday) The HAL 9000 and the vision of 2001: A Space Odyssey, lecture at National Engineer's Week celebration, Sheraton Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA. (Information: Ralph Johnson: 510-670-5562)

  • Review of HAL's Legacy by T. Jackson in Axis (volume 4, number 2) (UK).

  • 28 (Saturday) 2001: A computer's legacy by Dick Wilson, for CNN.

March


  • 1 (Sunday) Review of HAL's Legacy by Martha Ray in the Library Journal.

  • 10 (Tuesday) 5pm Talk at the Computer Science Department, University of San Francisco.

  • 13 (Friday) "A HAL of a way to take the chip off Marvin's cold shoulder" by Tony Durham, interview with Roz Picard, and review of "Affective Computing" and "HAL's Legacy," The Times Higher (Multimedia section).

  • 24 (Tuesday) 4pm Talk at AAAI Spring Symposium Series on Intelligent Environments, Stanford University.

  • Review of HAL's Legacy by David W. Salt in the Journal of Consciousness Studies (UK) vol. 5, no. 1.

  • School Library Journal announcement of paperback version of HAL's Legacy, and short review by Martha Ray.

April


  • 4 (Saturday) Science News Vol. 153, No. 4, announcement of paperback version of HAL's Legacy.

  • 9 (Thursday) Nature, page 564, short announcement of paperback version of HAL's Legacy.

  • 10 (Friday) Illustrated lecture at "Machines That Learn" Workshop, Snowbird UT.

  • 20 (Monday) 7:00pm, Villard Room, "The HAL 9000 and the vision of 2001: A Space Odyssey," in the Matthew Vassar Lecture Series and the Winifred Asprey Series in Computer Science at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.

  • 29 (Wednesday) Celebration of the 30th anniversary of the release of "2001" at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles, including panel discussion with Tom Hanks, Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, Bill Anders, Joan Horvath, David G. Stork and Andrew Chaikin.

  • Review of HAL's Legacy in Spanish, in Byte magazine (Spanish edition), no. 36, page 38.

May

  • 12 (Tuesday) "The 'legacy' of Kubrck's masterpiece" by Lou Gaul in Burlington County (NJ) Times.

  • 18 (Monday) Coupland Samples HAL's Legacy by Douglas Coupland. Online review of HAL's Legacy from Wired News.

June


  • 3 (Wednesday) Online review of HAL's Legacy by Julia L. Green.

  • 11 (Thursday) Review of HAL's Legacy, reviewed by Andrew Morris, page 54 of Computing (UK).

  • Review of HAL's Legacy by Chris Solbépage 322 in Personal Computer World (UK).

  • HAL or the Digits of pi by Martin Conrads, review of HAL's Legacy in MUTE, issue 8 (UK).

July


  • Review of HAL's Legacy by Julia L. Green page 52 in the July/August issue (Volume 24 #4) of Skeptical Inquirer. Here is a reply by David Stork, submitted to Skeptical Inquirer.

  • 2001 at 30 by Dan Perez, Science Fiction Magazine, July pp. 46-49 and 72.

  • 31 (Friday) 6pm Reading and signing of HAL's Legacy at Reiter's Bookstore, 2021 K Street NW, Washington DC 800-537-4314 or 202-223-3327.

August


  • Short notice on HAL's Legacy in Science & Spirit, Vol. 9, issue 2, page 28.

September


October


  • Review of HAL's Legacy in Cantrill's Filmnotes (Australia).

November


  • Panel discussion of "HAL's Legacy, "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" and the future of AI, with David G. Stork, Nils Nilsson and David Israel, "Page View," ZDTV.

December


  • Short review of HAL's Legacy by Scot Casey in Fringeware Review.


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