HAL
Downloads HAL is an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.program; he can speak in a normal voice and respond to over 45 voice commands from the user. HAL can perform many common computer tasks and read any text for the user.
[August 11, 2004, 12:40]
Little Hal
Downloads Little Hal's top priority is to quickly jog your memory, contains a single list divided into three categories, NOTES, TASKS and FACTS.There are no folders, sub folders or fancy frills, a simple flick of your finger finds what you need Now.
[December 2, 2008, 5:19]
Podcast: Globalization Challenges and Opportunities: A Conversation with The Boston Consulting Group's Hal Sirkin
White Papers Listen to this podcast featuring Hal Sirkin, senior partner and managing director at The Boston Consulting Group, to learn about the new Era in international business competition. This podcast will discuss:
[September 15, 2009, 1:21]
Ultra Hal Text-to-Speech Reader
Downloads The Ultra Hal Text-to-Speech Reader application will read your documents out loud in one of its many high-quality voices. This can be a great tool for proofreading because hearing your text out loud helps you spot all mistakes.
[February 19, 2009, 5:48]
Do the maths: HAL 9000 by 2018?
Blog Comment Open the pod bay doors HAL. Actually not bad for a prediction made in the late 1960's by Sir Arthur Clark. He'll only have missed by 17 years if it happens. We might actually have reasonable moon colonies in 2061 when I think it is the last of...
[July 7, 2008, 9:34]
Do the maths: HAL 9000 by 2018?
Blog Comment Arthur Clarke is one of my major heroes, for all sorts of reasons. I knew someone who worked with him during the war on guidance systems; apparently you could never have described him as unsure of himself, even then.
[July 7, 2008, 9:51]
Artificial Intelligence: Working backwards from HAL
Talkback Greetings Nick Hampshire In response to your ongoing 3-part article on AI, I am writing to alert you to the newly issued U.S.patent concerning ethical artificial intelligence titled: Inductive Inference Affective Language
[March 28, 2006, 6:26]
Artificial Intelligence: Working backwards from HAL
Talkback "Artificial Intelligence" will always be just that: *Artificial*. The reason is simple: As magnificent as any computer might get, including those in the future which will drive walking, talking, synthetic flesh-bound robots, they will still have...
[March 29, 2006, 0:21]
Artificial Intelligence: Working backwards from HAL
Talkback Only when systems have the opportunity to exercise “reason” will they evolve to the next level (HAL-like). Reasoning Systems In my opinion, the future of AI is dependent on the extension of the programming paradigm from today’s Boolean logic to...
[April 3, 2006, 16:54]
Do the maths: HAL 9000 by 2018?
Blog There's a new science in town: connectomics. A specialised form of neuroanatomy, connectomics is in the business of mapping out the brain's networks - in particular, how the various functional modules already identified connect to each other.
[July 4, 2008, 12:42]
USB Audio HAL plugin driver
Downloads Alternative USB Audio driver for low-latency 1:1 audio connections for use with pro-audio applications like Cubase, Live, Logic, Reason, Audacity, Audition and DJ applications like Traktor, Mixmeister and Itch
[September 23, 2009, 1:24]
Artificial Intelligence: Working backwards from HAL
News This was the era in which there was also much speculation about the impact of intelligent computers, computers like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The phrase 'artificial intelligence' was first coined by John McCarthy at a conference at Dartmouth...
[March 27, 2006, 15:40]
BIOS Development for Server Platform
White Papers They also required Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server HAL adaptation. The HAL was adapted by a Calsoft Labs engineer who worked closely with the customer's BIOS, hardware and OS engineers. The client wanted to implement ACPI compliance in a...
[February 10, 2009, 0:20]
Atheros Wi-Fi drivers go open source
Blog Atheros will share source code for its hardware abstraction layer (HAL) with the open source projects working to support it in Linux - reports Sam Leffler, the champion of open source Atheros support.
[December 2, 2008, 10:50]
GNOME 2.12 improves hardware integration
News More applications in GNOME 2.12 take advantage of the hardware abstraction layer (HAL), allowing them to offer seamless hardware support, said Madeley. HAL-aware applications can display more information to the user, as well as benefit from 'it...
[September 8, 2005, 17:55]
Universal Imaging Utility 3.5 review
Reviews UIU works with popular cloning packages such as Ghost, Altiris, Acronis and Zenworks, allowing you to create a single master image for any Windows Vista Business or Enterprise 32-bit versions, XP, 2000 or Tablet PC Edition — regardless of HAL type...
[June 25, 2008, 9:56]
Scientists teach computer to speak
News In contrast to these previous attempts, HAL is designed to learn language for itself. Ironically, because HAL is not programmed with hard and fast rules, just basic learning ability, Hutchens cannot know how exactly HAL processes language.
[April 12, 2001, 15:38]
HAL9000 Desktop Simulator
Downloads This demo package includes a series of 26 original HAL-inspired images for your Macintosh computer including a startup screen, desktop picture, and slides you can use with your screen saver. HAL9000 gives your Mac's interface an overhaul...
[March 23, 1999, 1:13]
The Day Ahead: CFO search hover over Red Hat earnings
News In July, Red Hat Chief Financial Officer Hal Covert resigned to go to SGI. Hal was a good operations CFO. When Red Hat reports its fiscal second quarter earnings Thursday analysts will be looking for the subtle items that may indicate the Linux...
[September 13, 2000, 11:19]
Hackers dig in for Euro festival
News Just like at HIP97, the authorities have pre-signed orders ready and waiting to cut our link to the world if the HAL network becomes a source of too many problems," reads the warning on the site. Hackers at Large (HAL) is the latest in a series of...
[August 7, 2001, 16:46]



