Question:
Famous Computer Names? (see details)?
anonymous
2008-02-06 06:51:06 UTC
Just wanted to know if there were any well known super computer or AI names from famous movies or tv shows. I know Star Trek just calls theirs 'Computer' but has any other movie or tv show given theirs a different name?
Ten answers:
anonymous
2008-02-06 07:03:27 UTC
Or an awesome list at wikipedia:



Film



[edit] 1950s



* The Interocitor communication device in the film This Island Earth (1955)

* The Great Machine built inside a planet that can manifest thought in Forbidden Planet (1956)

* EMERAC, the business computer in Desk Set (1957)



[edit] 1960s



* Alpha 60, in Jean-Luc Godard's film Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)

* HAL 9000 (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a fictional mission computer in the films 2001: A Space Odyssey and sequel 2010: Odyssey Two that fatally malfunctions when contra-programmed with the secret purpose of the mission (1968)

* Alfie, a shipboard computer in Barbarella (1968)



[edit] 1970s



* Colossus — a massive U.S. defense computer which becomes sentient and links with Guardian to take control of the world. From the film Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

* Guardian — a massive U.S.S.R defense computer which becomes sentient and links with Colossus to take control of the world. From the film Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

* The Aries Computer, the computer from the 1972 film of the same name.

* Bomb 20 — the sentient nuclear bomb from the film Dark Star (1974)

* Mother, the ship-board computer on the space ship Dark Star, from the film Dark Star (1974)

* Mother, the ship-board computer on the space ship Nostromo, in the SF horror movie Alien (1979)

* Proteus, artificial intelligence in SF horror movie Demon Seed (1977)

* The Tabernacle, artificial intelligence controlling The Vortexes Zardoz (1974)

* DUEL, the computer which holds the sum total of human knowledge, in the SF movie The Final Programme (1973)



[edit] 1980s



* SCMODS (State, County, Municipal Offender Data System), police patrol car computer in the movie The Blues Brothers (1980)

* Master Control Program, the main villain of Tron (1982)

* WOPR (War Operations Plan and Response) from the movie WarGames (1983)

* Huxley 600 (named Aldous), Interpol's computer in Curse of the Pink Panther used to select Jacques Clouseau's replacement, NYPD Det. Sgt. Clifton Sleigh (1983)

* Joshua, a subprogram that runs on the WOPR (q.v.) in WarGames (1983)

* Skynet, the malevolent fictional world-AI of The Terminator and its sequels (1984)

* Edgar, AI computer that takes part in a romantic rivalry over a woman in the movie Electric Dreams (1984)

* ROK, the faulty computer in Airplane II: The Sequel, which steers the shuttle toward the sun (1982)



[edit] 1990s



* Lucy, jealous AI home automation system who falls in love with her owner in Homewrecker (1992)

* Zed, female-voiced AI prison control computer who eventually goes over warden's head in Fortress (1993)

* Charon, female-voiced AI computer assisting a scientist in hypnotizing subjects in The Lifeforce Experiment (1994)

* Father, the station computer in Alien: Resurrection (1997)

* Euclid, powerful personal computer used for mathematical testing by the main character in Pi (1998)

* The Matrix, virtual reality simulator for pacification of humans, The Matrix series (1999)

* Lucy, a computer in Hackers (1995) used to hack the Gibson (see below) and subsequently destroyed by the Secret Service.

* Gibson, a type of supercomputer used to find oil and perform physics in Hackers (1995)

* PAT, (Personal Appiled Technology) Female motherly computer program who controls all the functions of a house in Disney's Smart House (1999)

* Project 2501 Artificial Intelligence developed by Section 6 in Ghost in the Shell (1995)

* SETH, (Self Evolving Thought Helix) a military supercomputer which turns rogue in Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)



[edit] 2000s



* Red Queen, the AI from the movie Resident Evil (2002)

* Vox, a holographic computer in The Time Machine (2002)

* I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. — computer for Team America: World Police (2004)

* V.I.K.I., (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence) from I, Robot (2004)

* E.D.I (Extreme Deep Invader) is the flight computer for an unmanned fighter plane in Stealth (2005)

* Lucille - artificially intelligent spacecraft control interface aboard Mars-1 in Red Planet (2000)

* Deep Thought, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy calculates the answer to "Life, the universe and everything", later designs the computer Earth to work out what the question is (2005)

* PAL, a spoof of HAL 9000 seen in Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-lot (2004)
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2016-12-12 21:13:19 UTC
Famous Computer Names
Duncan
2015-08-16 23:20:40 UTC
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RE:

Famous Computer Names? (see details)?

Just wanted to know if there were any well known super computer or AI names from famous movies or tv shows. I know Star Trek just calls theirs 'Computer' but has any other movie or tv show given theirs a different name?
Damon S
2008-02-06 06:55:48 UTC
Mother - used in multiple movies

Father - Aliens resurrection

Hal - can't remember

Johnny 5 - short circuit

big blue

cortonna
?
2014-04-09 14:12:00 UTC
Why has nobody said GLaDOS? In case you were wondering, it stands for:

Genetic

Lifeform

and

Disk

Operating

System
Neko
2015-06-21 19:00:38 UTC
How come no one said JARVIS ?

JARVIS- Just A Rather Very Intelligent System
anonymous
2016-03-16 08:03:09 UTC
going back to before the computer...try the basel school in switzerland, armin hofmann, wolfgang weingart, and april grieman.
erg322
2008-02-06 07:00:04 UTC
HAL ............from 2001 a space Odyssey



WOPR ........Wargames
Xerces
2008-02-06 07:08:18 UTC
I think Shranko's nailed it. ^
.:lilly:.
2008-02-06 06:54:09 UTC
Mac Book... i have it ....its awesome and super thin


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