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===1990s=== * '''Thing''', a very small box shaped computer owned by the Nomes, from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[The Nome Trilogy]]'' (1990) * '''Grand Napoleon''', a [[Charles Babbage]]-style mechanical supercomputer from the [[alternate history (fiction)|alternate history]] novel ''[[The Difference Engine]]'' by [[William Gibson]] and [[Bruce Sterling]] (1990) * '''Yggdrasil''', a vastly intelligent AI which effectively runs the world, including many virtual environments and subordinate AIs, in [[Kim Newman]]'s ''The Night Mayor'' (1990) * '''Jill''', a computer reaching self-awareness in [[Greg Bear]]'s [[Queen of Angels (novel)|''Queen of Angels'' and ''Slant'']] novels (1990 and 1997) * '''Aleph''', the computer which not only operates a space station but also houses the personality of a human character whose body became malfunction, from the [[Tom Maddox]] novel ''Halo'' (1991) * '''Art Fish''', a.k.a. Dr. Fish, later fused with a human to become Markt, from [[Pat Cadigan]]'s novel ''Synners'' (1991) * '''[[Blaine the Mono]]''', from [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower (series)|The Dark Tower]]'', a control system for the City of Lud and monorail service; also '''Little Blaine''' and '''Patricia''' (1991) * '''Center''', from [[S. M. Stirling]] and [[David Drake]]'s [[The General series]], an AI tasked to indirectly unite planet Bellevue and restore its civilization, with the eventual goal of restoration of FTL travel and of civilization to the collapsed interplanetary federation; also '''Sector Command and Control Unit AZ12-b14-c000 Mk. XIV''' and '''Center''' (1991) *'''Dahak''', from [[Mutineers' Moon|David Weber's Mutineer's Moon]] and its sequels, later republished inomnibus format [[Empire from the Ashes]]. * '''The Oversoul''', a supercomputer and satellite network from [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''[[Homecoming Saga]]'', first introduced in ''[[The Memory of Earth]]'' (1992) * '''FLORANCE''', spontaneously generated AI from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' ''[[Virgin New Adventures]]'' (1992) * '''David''' and '''Jonathon''', from [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s ''[[The Hammer of God (Clarke novel)|The Hammer of God]]'' (1993) * '''Central Operating System''', a building management system AI that kills two people who threaten its existence in ''[[Ghost in the Machine (The X-Files)|Ghost in the Machine]]'', an episode of '''''[[The X-Files]]''''' (1993) * '''[[Hex (Discworld)|Hex]]''', from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' (1994) * '''Prime Intellect''', the computer controlling the universe in the Internet novel ''[[The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect]]'' by Roger Williams (1994) * '''FIDO''' (Foreign Intruder Defense Organism), a semi-organic droid defensive system first mentioned in ''[[Champions of the Force]]'', a ''[[Star Wars]]'' novel by [[Kevin J. Anderson]] (1994) * '''Abraham''', from [[Philip Kerr]]'s novel ''[[Gridiron (novel)|Gridiron]]'', is a superintelligent program designed to operate a large office building. Abraham is capable of improving his own code, and eventually kills humans and creates his own replacement "Isaac" (1995) * '''Helen''', sentient AI from [[Richard Powers]]' ''[[Galatea 2.2]]'' (1995) * '''Illustrated primer''', a book-like computer found at [[Neal Stephenson]]'s novel ''[[The Diamond Age]]'', which was first designed to aid a rich girl on her education, but gets lost, and instructs a poor Chinese girl named Nell. It has no proprietary AI inside, but learns about the user's circumstance, adapts, and creates characters that act accordingly with the user's surroundings. (1995) * '''Ozymandias''', a recurring artificial intelligence in [[Deathstalker (series)|''Deathstalker'' and its sequels]], by [[Simon R. Green]] (1995) * '''Ordinator''', the name used for any computer in the parallel universe occupied by Lyra in the novel ''[[Northern Lights (Pullman novel)|Northern Lights]]'' by [[Philip Pullman]] (1995) * '''Teleputer''', the replacement for television and computers that has on demand video via dial up internet from [[David Foster Wallace]]'s ''[[Infinite Jest]]'' (1996) * '''GRUMPY/SLEEPY''', psychic AI in the ''Doctor Who'' New Adventures novel ''[[Sleepy (novel)|Sleepy]]'' by [[Kate Orman]] (1996) * '''The Librarian''' from the novel [[Snow Crash]] by Neal Stephenson * '''Rei Toei''', an artificial singer from [[William Gibson]]'s novels ''[[Idoru]]'' and ''[[All Tomorrow's Parties (novel)|All Tomorrow's Parties]]'' (1996) * '''Titania''', a female computer providing the personality to the ''Starship Titanic'' from the [[Terry Jones]] novel ''[[Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel]]'' (1997). * '''DOCTOR''', AI designed to duplicate the [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|Doctor]]'s reactions in the ''Doctor Who'' ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' novel ''[[Seeing I]]'' by [[Kate Orman]] and [[Jonathan Blum (writer, born 1972)|Jon Blum]], eventually became an explorer with FLORANCE as its "companion" (1998) * '''TRANSLTR''', NSA supercomputer from [[Dan Brown]]'s ''[[Digital Fortress]]'' (1998) * '''ENIGMA''', short for Engine for the Neutralising of Information by the Generation of Miasmic Alphabets, an advanced cryptographic machine created by Leonard of Quirm, ''[[Discworld]]'' (1999) (compare with the actual [[Enigma machine]]) * '''Luminous''', from [[Greg Egan]]'s eponymous [[Luminous (short story)|short story]], is a computer that uses a diffraction grating created by lasers to diffract electrons and make calculations (1999)
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