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HAL

(computer)HAL 9000, the murdering computer on thespaceship in the science fiction classic "2001, A SpaceOdyssey" by Arthur C. Clark.

"HAL" is "IBM" with each letter changed to the one beforeand there is an unconfirmed rumour that 9000 is the sum of thevarious IBM computer numbers that were in service at the time.However, in the sequel "2010", Clarke emphatically denies thatHAL's name is supposed to be "one step ahead of IBM". It is,rather, short for "heuristic algorithm".

HAL

(operating system)Hardware Abstraction Layer.

HAL

(1) An interface between hardware and software. See hardware abstraction layer.

(2) (Heuristic/ALgorithmic) The name of the computer that took over command of the spaceship in Stanley Kubrick's famous film "2001: A Space Odyssey." Each letter in H-A-L precedes the letters I-B-M. When the movie was released in 1968, IBM controlled almost every aspect of the computer industry; however, the HAL-IBM connection was supposedly a coincidence.

HAL

Acronym	Definition
HAL➣Hardware Abstraction Layer
HAL➣Heuristically-programmed Algorithmic Computer (computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey)
HAL➣[not an acronym] from 2001: A Space Odyssey
HAL➣Home Automated Living
HAL➣Halliburton (oil service company)
HAL➣Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
HAL➣Hybrid Assistive Limb (robotic suit)
HAL➣History, Arts and Libraries
HAL➣Halon (fire protection agent)
HAL➣Halberd (Runescape gaming)
HAL➣Hyper Article En Ligne (Hyper Article on Line)
HAL➣Hypertext Application Language (Internet draft standard)
HAL➣Heuristic Algorithmic Computer
HAL➣Hardware Array Logic
HAL➣House Programmed Array Logic
HAL➣Human Access Language
HAL➣Hawaiian Airlines (ICAO code)
HAL➣Holland Amerika Lijn (Dutch: Holland America Line)
HAL➣Her Active Life (women's health publication)
HAL➣Histidine Ammonia-Lyase
HAL➣Hold at Location (shipping)
HAL➣Horticulture Australia Ltd.
HAL➣Health Advisory Level
HAL➣Hot Air Leveling (technique for laying soldering coating on circuit boards)
HAL➣Hackers At Large
HAL➣Hyperalimentation
HAL➣Atlantic Halibut
HAL➣Hard Array Logic
HAL➣Hardware Adaptation Layer
HAL➣Heavy Axle Load (transportation)
HAL➣Hunter Associates Laboratory (Reston, VA)
HAL➣Hand Activity Level
HAL➣High Accident Location
HAL➣High-Order Assembly Language
HAL➣Hardware Artificial Life
HAL➣Hyperspace Analog to Language
HAL➣Houston Aerospace Language (US NASA)
HAL➣Howard Astronomical League (Howard County, Maryland)
HAL➣High Temperature Acoustic Levitator (US NASA)
HAL➣Hargrave-Andrew Library (Monash University, Australia)
HAL➣Hampden Agencies Limited (UK)
HAL➣Hyper-Algorithmic Logic (Star Bridge Systems Inc. hypercomputer technology)
HAL➣Horizontal Alert Limit
HAL➣Hickling Arthurs Low Corporation (Canada)
HAL➣Humanities, Arts and Languages
HAL➣Human Access Language (early variation of Lotus 123)
HAL➣Helicopter Attack Squadron Light (US Navy aviation unit designation used 1967-72 and again 1976-88)
HAL➣Height Above Landing Area
HAL➣Historical Annotated Landings (National Marine Fisheries Service database)
HAL➣Highly Automated Logic
HAL➣Halken Laboratories Inc
HAL➣Hypertext Aided Learning
HAL➣Holston Associated Libraries, Inc.
HAL➣Homework Access Line
HAL➣Hyperbaric Airlock