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Re: HAL, Holly or Deep Thought ?

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From: Howard Poe
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:00
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cbh@bankersnet.co.uk (Chris Hedley) writes:

>In article <5lq9qj$m35$1@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk>,
>	paul.mcilroy@bt-sys.bt.co.uk (Paul McIlroy) writes:
>> If you were asked to develop a computer like HAL from 2001, Holly from
>> Red Dwarf or Deep Thought from the Hitch-hikers Guide to the Universe,
>> and to complete it within 10 years could you do it ? Would you be first
>> across the finishing line, or would someone else beat you? Where would
>> you start?  And where would you end up?

>I'd give Holly a try, although it'd take quite some time to engineer into
>it that level of stupidity.

>Chris.

Stupidity?  Easy, just base it on WindBlows '95.

-Howard
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From: hpoe@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Howard Poe)
Subject: Re: HAL, Holly or Deep Thought ?
Date: 1997/05/20
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