Index

Table of Contents
Foreword	
Preface	
1	The Best-Informed Dream: HAL and the Vision of 2001	1
2	Scientist on the Set: An Interview with Marvin Minsky	15
3	Could We Build HAL? Supercomputer Design	33
4	"Foolproof and incapable of error?" Reliable Computing and Fault Tolerance	53
5	"An Enjoyable Game": How HAL Plays Chess	75
6	"The Talking Computer": Text to Speech Synthesis	101
7	When Will HAL Understand What We Are Saying? Computer Speech Recognition and Understanding	131
8	"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that": How Could HAL Use Language?	171
9	From 2001 to 2001: Common Sense and the Mind of HAL	193
10	Eyes for Computers: How HAL Could "See"	211
11	"I could see your lips move": HAL and Speechreading	237
12	Living in Space: Working with the Machines of the Future	263
13	Does HAL Cry Digital Tears? Emotions and Computers	279
14	"That's something I could not allow to happen": HAL and Planning	305
15	Computers, Science, and Extraterrestrials: An Interview with Stephen Wolfram	333
16	When HAL Kills, Who's to Blame? Computer Ethics	351
Contributors	367
Index	377