Contents



Foreword
Foreword

Arthur C. Clarke


Foreword
Preface

David G. Stork


Chapter 1
The Best-Informed Dream: HAL and the Vision of 2001

David G. Stork


Chapter 2
Scientist on the Set: An Interview with Marvin Minsky

David G. Stork


Chapter 3
Could We Build HAL? Supercomputer Design

David J. Kuck


Chapter 4
"Foolproof and incapable of error?" Reliable Computing and Fault Tolerance

Ravishankar K. Iyer


Chapter 5
"An Enjoyable Game": How HAL Plays Chess

Murray S. Campbell


Chapter 6
"The Talking Computer": Text to Speech Synthesis

Joseph P. Olive


Chapter 7
When Will HAL Understand What We Are Saying?
Computer Speech Recognition and Understanding


Raymond Kurzweil


Chapter 8
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that":
How Could HAL Use Language?


Roger C. Schank


Chapter 9
From 2001 to 2001: Common Sense and the Mind of HAL

Douglas B. Lenat


Chapter 10
Eyes for Computers: How HAL Could "See"

Azriel Rosenfeld


Chapter 11
"I could see your lips move": HAL and Speechreading

David G. Stork


Chapter 12
Living in Space: Working with the Machines of the Future

Donald A. Norman


Chapter 13
Does HAL Cry Digital Tears? Emotions and Computers

Rosalind W. Picard


Chapter 14
"That's something I could not allow to happen": HAL and Planning

David E. Wilkins


Chapter 15
Computers, Science, and Extraterrestrials:
An Interview with
Stephen Wolfram

David G. Stork


Chapter 16
When HAL Kills, Who's to Blame? Computer Ethics

Daniel C. Dennett






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