The science of HAL in the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Grounding technological fiction in computer science.
Research on HAL 9000
During pre-production in the mid-1960s, Kubrick and co-screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke sought top scientific minds to ensure the film's technology was grounded in plausible future science. They brought in Minsky—then co-director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Project—to evaluate how advanced computing and machine cognition might actually function by the turn of the millennium.