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<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="color:black">Hope this is of interest to SIGCIS folks. My continuing interest in “HAL” after 50 years.
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="color:black">Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>16<span style="color:black">th, at 12:30 pm (1630 GMT)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Not ‘HAL’ from <i>
2001: A Space Odyssey,</i> but a Real Supercomputer Used by NASA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">with Paul Ceruzzi<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#131D22;background:white">Tune in on Facebook.com/airandspace! </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#131D22;background:white">Planning to attend in-person? Meet</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";background:white"> in the Space Hangar<span style="color:#131D22">. </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fifty years ago, the film <i>2001: a Space Odyssey</i> featured a computer “HAL,” that could converse with its human crew in plain English, and perform a number of intelligent tasks (at least until the final scenes!). In this Ask an Expert
talk, curator Paul Ceruzzi discusses what <u>real</u> supercomputers of the 1960s looked like, and what they did (and did not do). He will describe NASM’s exhibit of a Control Data Corporation model 3800 computer, which was used by the Air Force to track and
control satellites, and by NASA to solve complex aerodynamics equations. Paul will also give some details about the computer’s legendary designer, Seymour Cray, who is considered the “father” of supercomputers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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