In getting to know our friend HAL, we're scrolling back to the earliest files on computing. It's the coolest in steampunk tech, the steamy age of Romantic poetry, and the sexiest of all: the U.S. Census!  
Foundations in Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Alan Turing and the Enigma project team at Bletchley Park, and how it's shaped the way computers evolved to think and how we've evolved to think today. Feedback loop? -oop? -oop?...
Plus: crosswords, dogs, and Andy Capp's hot fries!
Kubrick News: Todd Field and TAR
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Episode 12 - HAL Origins: The ENIAC Women and Another Tube Bites The Dust

Podcast dedicated to the history, science and legacy of the all-time classic film and one of the greatest works of art of the twentieth century, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.