Editing HAL 9000 (section)

==Cultural impact==
HAL is listed as the 13th-greatest film villain in the [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains]].<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Greatest Heroes & Villains |url=http://www.afi.com/100Years/handv.aspx |website=afi.com |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=8 January 2015 |date=2003 |archive-date=3 February 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140203233002/http://www.afi.com/100Years/handv.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>

The 9000th of the [[asteroid]]s in the [[asteroid belt]], [[9000 Hal]], discovered on 3 May 1981, by E. Bowell at [[Anderson Mesa Station]], is named after HAL 9000.<ref>{{cite web|title=9000 Hal (1981 JO)|url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi#top|website=[[NASA]].gov|publisher=NASA|access-date=2 June 2016|archive-date=29 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100929043420/http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi#top|url-status=live}} (entry for "9000")</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=(9000) Hal = 1975 VH3 = 1981 JJ3 = 1981 JO = 1995 US3 |url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=9000 |website=minorplanetcenter.net |publisher=IAU Minor Planet Center |access-date=22 March 2017 |archive-date=23 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323143438/http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=9000 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Anthony Hopkins]] based his [[Academy Award]]-winning performance as [[Hannibal Lecter]] in ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|Silence of the Lambs]]'' in part upon HAL 9000.<ref>{{cite web|first=Mark|last=McGowan|url=https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/celebrity-film-and-tv-awesome-how-anthony-hopkins-created-and-became-the-character-hannibal-lecter-20161230|title=How Anthony Hopkins Created And Became The Character Of Hannibal Lecter|website=Ladbible|date=30 December 2016|accessdate=15 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Ben|last=Arnold|url=https://www.yahoo.com/now/anthony-hopkins-reveals-inspiration-hannibal-lecter-104248803.html|title=Anthony Hopkins reveals the strangely brilliant inspiration for his Hannibal Lecter|website=[[Yahoo! Movies]]|date=20 January 2021|accessdate=15 January 2021}}</ref> [[Michael Fassbender]] has also cited HAL as an inspiration for his performances as android characters such as David (''[[Prometheus]]'') and Walter (''[[Alien: Covenant]]'').{{fact|date=April 2025}}

The 1993 educational game ''[[Where in Space Is Carmen Sandiego?]]'' features a digital assistant named the VAL 9000, a homage to HAL 9000.<ref>{{Cite web|date=8 October 2016|title=Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe. (from Broderbund Software) (Software Review) (Software: Games)(Brief Article) (Evaluation) - Computer Shopper {{!}} HighBeam Research|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-14459878.html|access-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008194314/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-14459878.html|archive-date=8 October 2016}}</ref>

[[Apple Inc.]]'s 1999 website advertisement "It was a bug, Dave" was made by meticulously recreating the appearance of HAL 9000 from the movie.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Segall|first1=Ken|title=The Making of Apple's HAL|url=http://kensegall.com/2017/02/the-making-of-apples-hal/|website=Ken Segall's Observatory|date=17 February 2017|access-date=6 February 2017}}</ref> Launched during the era of concerns over Y2K bugs, the ad implied that HAL's behavior was caused by a [[Year 2000 problem|Y2K]] bug, before driving home the point that "only [[Macintosh]] was designed to function perfectly".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/hal-confesses-all-and-joins-apple-1076172.html |title=Hal confesses all and joins Apple |first=Charles|last=Arthur |date= 25 January 1999|work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=26 November 2010 }}</ref>

In 2003, HAL 9000 was one of the first robots to be inducted into the [[Robot Hall of Fame]] in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name="RHOFOrgNominate">{{cite web |url=http://www.robothalloffame.org/nominate.html |title=Robot Hall of Fame® Inducts NAO, PackBot, BigDog and WALL-E |publisher=Robot Hall of Fame |access-date=12 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216235311/http://www.robothalloffame.org/nominate.html |archive-date=16 December 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.robothalloffame.org/inductees/03inductees/hal.html |title=HAL 9000 |website=Robot Hall of Fame |publisher=Robot Hall of Fame, Carnegie Science Center |access-date=28 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917134208/http://www.robothalloffame.org/inductees/03inductees/hal.html |archive-date=17 September 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> There is a loose physical replica of the main HAL interface at the [[Carnegie Science Center]] in Pittsburgh.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Robot Hall of Fame |url=https://carnegiesciencecenter.org/exhibits/robot-hall-of-fame/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241002000314/https://carnegiesciencecenter.org/exhibits/robot-hall-of-fame/ |archive-date=2024-10-02 |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=Carnegie Science Center}}</ref>

In the 2008 [[Pixar]] animated film ''[[WALL-E]]'', the robotic antagonist AUTO was designed as a conscious homage to HAL 9000.<ref>Tasha Robinson (26 June 2008). "Andrew Stanton". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on 8 September 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2008.</ref>