“HAL-100”

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It’s a little known fact that the initial inspiration for Stanley Kubrick’s menacing computer was a bathroom doorstop in East Baltimore. And, believe me, this toilet was SCARY!

Final version of the HAL-9000 as seen in “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) based on the Arthur C. Clarke short story “The Sentinel” (1951)

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Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.

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