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	Hal & Daisy

JerseyDevil

5-12-2006 8:42 AM

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science fiction, hal, daisy, 2001, arthur c. clarke

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/807db4a1-0605-4b2a-ab12-3616101b220e/08446037-C9D8-4918-B221-6DC3C504531E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.kottke.org/06/04/hal-daisy-2001" href="http://www.kottke.org/06/04/hal-daisy-2001" style="font-size: 11px;">www.kottke.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kottke.org/06/04/hal-daisy-2001"><H2>Why does HAL sing "Daisy, Daisy" in 2001: A Space Odyssey?</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kottke.org/06/04/hal-daisy-2001"><P>In 1962, Arthur C. Clarke was touring Bell Labs when he heard <a href="http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1997/march/5/2.html">a demonstration of a song sung by an IBM 704 computer programmed by physicist John L. Kelly</a>. The song, the first ever performed by a computer, was called "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell">Daisy Bell</a>", more commonly known as "Bicycle Built for Two" or "Daisy, Daisy". When Clarke collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey, they had HAL sing it while Dave powered him down.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kottke.org/06/04/hal-daisy-2001"><P>A clip of a 1963 synthesized computer speech demonstration by Bell Labs featuring "Daisy Bell" was included on <a href="http://www.vintagecomputermusic.com/">an album for the First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival</a>. You can listen to it (it's the last track) and the rest of the album at <a href="http://www.vintagecomputermusic.com/">vintagecomputermusic.com</a>. (via <a href="http://www.marksimonson.com/article/158/">mark</a>)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kottke.org/06/04/hal-daisy-2001"><P><b>Update:</b> A reader just reminded me that <a href="http://tafkac.org/movies/HAL_wordplay_on_IBM.html">HAL may have been so named</a> because each letter is off by one from IBM, although Arthur C. Clarke denies this. (thx, <a href="http://www.iamjp.com/">justin</a>)</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/08446037-C9D8-4918-B221-6DC3C504531E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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