The name "HAL Institute for Criminally Insane Robots" refers to HAL 9000, a spaceship-installed robot from the Space Odyssey series that murderously turns against its human crew.
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Shortly after the novel was released, Tom Hanks expressed great interest in producing a film adaptation, with himself cast in the role of Floyd, and Keir Dullea and Douglas Rain reprising their roles as David Bowman and HAL 9000.
In this, HAL 9000, a computer controlling spaceship Discovery One, bound for Jupiter, discovers a plot to deactivate it by the mission astronauts Dave Bowman and Frank Poole through lip reading their conversations.
Stanley Kubrick originally intended the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey to be a tetrahedron, according to Marvin Minsky, a cognitive scientist and expert on artificial intelligence who advised Kubrick on the Hal 9000 computer and other aspects of the movie.
The title references the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which astronaut David Bowman disables homicidal computer HAL.
TMA-1 (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly - 1), the Monolith (Space Odyssey) found in the moon's Tycho crater in the book and film 2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Odyssey (1978) aka "Seven Gold Men in Space"/ aka "Metallica"/ aka "Captive Planet"/ aka "Space Odyssey"
Space Odyssey, created in Armagh in the 1980s and scripted by Ian Ridpath, was the world’s first ever completely interactive planetarium show.
In the Zenon trilogy (Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, Zenon: The Zequel and Zenon: Z3), 13 year old Zenon lives on a rotating space station owned by the fictional WyndComm from 2049 though 2054 that is similar in appearance to Space Station V, but it is not designed in a way that would allow for artificial gravity through centripetal force like Space Station V of Space Odyssey 2001.
In October 2008, Vivian Kubrick appeared at a 40th anniversary screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey sponsored by the Jules Verne Society, where she appeared onstage with actor Keir Dullea, star of the film, Daniel Richter who played the chief ape in the film, and Malcolm McDowell who starred in her father's subsequent film, A Clockwork Orange.