Need infamous computer names.
alan dare
Hello all,
I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names. I had thought of
landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out there.
I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector - Saturn 5).
Thanks for any and all help.
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> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
>following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names. I had thought of
>landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out there.
>I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector - Saturn 5).
Well, finish off the ST episode list: V'Ger, Vaal, Nomad, M-5.
Then there's COLOSSUS.
Mother, from ALIEN; it worked with Ashe to make sure the Alien
was returned to the Company.
The BERSERKERs, from Fred Saberhagen's series.
DARKMAGE, the AI computer program that was also a supreme
black magician in Barbra Hambly's Darkmage dualogy.
Sea Wasp
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Rob Roy
>
> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
>following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names. I had thought of
>landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out there.
>I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector - Saturn 5).
>Alan Dare al...@hal.larc.nasa.gov
>
As a die-hard Star Wars fan the first infamous robot I thought of was
IG-88. He was one of the bounty hunters to go after the Millennium
Falcon. You could use Darth Vader too, "He's more machine now, twisted
and evil" :) 8) What do ya think?
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Antonio Tello
|>
|> Hello all,
|>
|> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
|> naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
|> following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names. I had thought of
|> landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out there.
|> I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector - Saturn 5).
|>
|> Thanks for any and all help.
|>
Do not forget...
Colossus and Guardian (my two favorite)
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Stephan Fassmann
>From: sea...@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp)
>Subject: Re: Need infamous computer names.
>Date: 30 Apr 93 19:49:01 GMT
Another JOSHUA from Demon Seed.
how about Deep Thought from Hitchhikers Guide. :-)
Banana 9000 from Bloom County :-)
MCP from TRON.
Enjoy Stephan Fassmann
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Michael Parks Swaim
>
> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
>following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names.
I can add:
Colossus: From the book trilogy and movies,
Computo: Robot/Computer from the Legion of Superheros
The General: The Prisoner
M-5 (?): Star Trek
There's also the computer from Saberhagen's book _Octagon_ although
I forget it's name.
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Chris DuPuis
> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
>following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names. I had thought of
>landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out there.
>I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector - Saturn 5).
Hactar, from _Life, the Universe, and Everything_
Nestor, from one of Asimov's robot short stories
and finally, the most feared, most infamous of all computer names in any
genre:
VAX !!!
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>>Hello all,
>> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>>naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
>>following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names.
>
Well, from sci-fi books you'd get (of course!)
Wintermute
and
Neuromancer
(the two AI entitities that [battle?] in Gibson's "Neuromancer")
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How bout V-Ger from Star Trek: The Motion Picture,
and of course the obvious Robocop 2 and the T800 and T1000.
Jeff
Mike Powell
From ST:TOS the Enterprose computer was simply refered to as "computer".
Don't forget "M5", also from the original series.
And from War Games, W.O.P.R (called "whopper")
From 2010, there was SAL (if I remember the name correctly)
Robots: too numerous to mention really... Hewey, Dewey, and Louie from
Silent Running are favorites of mine.
-Mike-
Pete Goodeve
(Alan Dare) writes:
> ^^^^
> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>naming some of my computer systems.
Well, from *way* back (late '50s. I guess), and from the other side of the
Atlantic, a namesake of yours (Dan) batlled a particularly evil one called
`Orak' on the planet Phantos...
Yeah, I know -- kind of out of the mainstream of most of you lot, but
I have to keep my old heroes alive somehow... (:-))
-- Pete --
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How about these?
EDDIE, DEEP THOUGHT, EARTH - Computers from Hitch-Hikers.
GORT - 7ft tall robot from "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
ASH - Android from "Alien".
BISHOP - Android from "Aliens".
MARVIN - Manically depressed robot from Hitch-Hikers.
ROBBIE - Infamous 50's robot from "Forbidden Planet".
NUMBER 5 - (Scraping the Barrel here)
HOLLY - Computer from "Red Dwarf"
KRYTEN - Robot from "Red Dwarf"
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>Hello all,
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Maybe I can get a little help here. The computer I always remember (except
for /he/she/its name ) is the twisty, evil, and manipulative computer from
_The_wolves_of_memory_ by George Alec Effinger. Anyone remember what it was
called?
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> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
>following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names. I had thought of
>landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out there.
>I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector - Saturn 5).
>Thanks for any and all help.
What about WINTERMUTE. The AI from Gibson's "Neuromacer", who conspires
to meld with the right half of his personality, the AI NEUROMANCER.
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Jevex..(Someone metioned him with Zorac and the other computer
from the Giants series, but hes the only EVIL one.)
The computer from Ellison's "For I Have No Mouth, and I Must
Scream" (What was its name..?)
Joshua from "War Games"
Bret D. Wortman: WordMan
> naming some of my computer systems.
AM.
WordMan
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Marshall Ryan Maresca
(Paul-Erik T|rr|nen) says:
>You should not forget the Univac from a story by Asimov (which? I don't
>remember) where the computer in the end became one with the humanity.
The story is "The Last Question". The Multivac/ Univac/ etc. is Asimov's
standard mega-comp.
Marsh
David C. Barber
a computer/robot I would *not* have minded meeting.
BTW, when this is all done, do come back and post the whole list.
Thanks!
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How 'bout Wintermute?
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Phil Trodwell
>Subject: Need infamous computer names.
>Date: 30 Apr 1993 18:59:02 GMT
>
>Hello all,
> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
>following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names. I had thought of
>landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out there.
>I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector - Saturn 5).
>
>Thanks for any and all help.
>"Firey the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled over their shores,
From James P. Hogan:
FISE - "Two Faces of Tommorrow"
(I forget the Janus installed version of FISE...anybody?)
VISAR - good guy, "Inherit the stars" series
ZORAC - ditto
JEVEX - bad guy, "Inherit the stars"
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Don't forget the villianous viarl programs inhabitting Networks:
P-1 from Paul Ryans ? Adolesense of P-1.
Jane from Orson Scott Cards Ender series.
Curt
Steven Malikoff
: I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
: naming some of my computer systems.
'Edgar' from 'Electric Dreams'. (Not really bad, just uncooperative)
'WOPR' from 'War Games' (_NOT_ 'Joshua' as some people think)
'NASCORP' (Nasty Corporation) from some US TV series about 7 or 8 years ago,
that featured some kid super-hacker and friends, can't remember the name.
Steve Malikoff.
ste...@syacus.acus.oz.au
David C. Barber
thomas helke
that impregnated Julie Christie in order to give birth to
himself so he could feel the sun on his face as he continued
to literally take over the world. Also, Proteus was a sea god
in Greek Mythology capable of assuming different forms. And, in
"Demon Seed," he did indeed assume different forms. He was
a truly scary, ominous, omniscient, omnipotent computer. No one
could escape his view or find any opening in his supreme logic,
not even his creator, played by Fritz Weaver. Proteus did win,
in the end; i.e., he raped Julie Christie and forced her, by
appealing to her medulla oblongata through brutal brain surgery,
to carry the child in her womb for the full, albeit accelerated
gestation period.
We are left with the last scene of Julie Christie holding a
beautiful, blond child on her lap: Proteus! ("I AM alive!")
In an aside here, this movie could have done well with a sequal.
In so many of these movies about computers, humans, aliens, et al.
who are on the verge of controlling humanity, we are left with
their final victory, but are seldom, if ever, let known what
happens after that. (Do they really get to rule the planet?)
R Clark x4971
Colosus has been mentioned to death but from the book also Guardian and
Unity.
Joshua/WOPR from War Games
Norman, Alice from TOS: I Mudd. And what was the name of his nagging wife
that they brought in at the end?
Beta 5 from TOS: Gary 7 (or whatever the episode name was)
Orac, Zen, Slave from Blake's 7
BOSS from Dr Who: The Green Death. Probably gobs more from DW but nothing
comes to mind at the moment.
Cora from Battlestar Galactica.
What was the name of the robot cop with the Texas accent in Star Crash?
Did the computer in Herbert's Destination Void have a name?
Selma
Ultima Futura or something like that from Metropolis.
Jill (and Jack) from Forward's Flight of the Dragonfly.
Several named robots from IA's stories. Only Sammy and R'Daneel come to
mind at the moment but lots more.
Of course many of these were actually 'good' computers.
How about $*#%!@ from my Compu$erve account?
I think I'm starting to get off the topic.
Richard Clark
rcl...@lpl.arizona.edu
Marguerite Petersen
>
>Colosus has been mentioned to death but from the book also Guardian and
>Unity.
>
>Joshua/WOPR from War Games
>
>Norman, Alice from TOS: I Mudd. And what was the name of his nagging wife
>that they brought in at the end?
Stella
>
>Richard Clark
Marg
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>following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names. I had thought of
>landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out there.
>I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector - Saturn 5).
>
>Thanks for any and all help.
Nobody mentioned Ziggy, Alpha (Ziggy's name in an alternate timeline)
or Lothos (Ziggy's evil counterpart).
Lord Vader
:Hmmm. All the QL-folk must be too busy trying to save the show.
:Nobody mentioned Ziggy, Alpha (Ziggy's name in an alternate timeline)
:or Lothos (Ziggy's evil counterpart).
Haven't been keeping up with this, so it probably has already been mentioned
since I didn't see it in the _few_ posts that I did read...
Joshua [War Games, with Matthew Broderick]
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I love the "bomb" from I think Silent Running.. "Bomb get back in your bomb
bay, BOMB"..
Also the one in the movie, where the ship is a giant computer, that acts as
mother to a "human" child (later grown up), and some telepaths and I think
Marky Post stars in it.. Wierd, some sex, and soem violence.
More like a horror movie in space.. The group who travels onthe ship are
arceologists or ??
==
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Kathryn Andersen
> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
>following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names. I had thought of
>landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out there.
>I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector - Saturn 5).
Okay...
If you have Hal, don't forget Sal!
Somebody already mentioned Zen and Orac from Blake's 7, but they forgot
to mention Slave.
There's TIM from The Tomorrow People (a bio-organic computer).
From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, there's
Eddie the shipboard computer
and if you count robots, who could forget Marvin?
And of course Asimov had many robots in his robot stories, though
few of them had memorable names.
Daneel R. Olivaw is the only one I can think of right now.
Robby the Robot (!)
Did the robot from Lost In Space have a name?
And for a really obscure one, I named *my* computer Shirka.
Bet you don't know where that came from!
(which is why I picked it, really. And she had a nice voice.)
Kathryn Andersen
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%Haven't been keeping up with this, so it probably has already been mentioned
%since I didn't see it in the _few_ posts that I did read...
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%Joshua [War Games, with Matthew Broderick]
Actually, the name of the computer was W.H.O.P.E.R. (or something like
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The name of the move was Dark Star, and quite hillarious at that! Silent
Running was much more dramatic...
M Holmes
Harsh Mistress"?
Mike Holmes :-)
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BogusMan
>In article <10...@blue.cis.pitt.edu> sea...@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:
>>From: sea...@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp)
>>Subject: Re: Need infamous computer names.
>>Date: 30 Apr 93 19:49:01 GMT>Another JOSHUA from Demon Seed.
>Enjoy Stephan Fassmann
>Internet: $ste...@sasb.byu.edu GEnie: S.FASSMANN
The computer in "Demon Seed", was Proteus, not Joshua.
also:
P-1, from the canadian TV series, "Hide And Seek"
Pax
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BogusMan
>For INFAMOUS computers, these come to mind..
>
>
>Scream" (What was its name..?)
>
There is a very similar one in the comic series/anime, "Grey", but I
don't have it handy to look up the name.
>cr...@kelvin.seas.virginia.edu
>
Pax
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BogusMan
P-1 also made his TV debut in a canadian TV movie, "Hide And Seek",
and I believe the author is Thomas Ryan. Isn't quite as malevolent as
it seemed in print, but it's pretty good.
Pax
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Paul Neve
Paul Neve
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Sorry, I meant Lore (Data's 'brother')..
Dave Weingart
> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
> naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
Hmmm...well, there's always z*ma.UUCP and cnsvax.uwec.edu! B{)
Mother (from Alien) probably wouldn't fit what you were looking for.
M5 (from ST:TOS) might. And certain IBMPC is the most evil of them
all!
If you're willing to go into robots, you can open up the entire
book of film...T2000, Gog & Magog -- the mind boggles!
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> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
> naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
> landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out there.
> I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector - Saturn 5).
>
>
>
Mother (Alien)
Master Control Program (TRON)
BTW: when your done compiling the list post it.
Grey Elf
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>How about "Mike Holmes" the subversive AI from Heinlein's "The Moon Is a
>Harsh Mistress"?
>
>
>Mike Holmes :-)
Michelle (tuned up his voice synthesizer an octave or so to relate better
with Wyoming Knott) and Adam Selene (the official leader of the revolution).
The warden knew him as H.O.L.M.E.S., which is some sort of abbreviation
of a description of the computer hardware.
Bret D. Wortman: WordMan
You're in luck. ;-)
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How about MOTHER from the orig. ALIEN. Or the name of the evil android in
the same movie. I forget his name. Anyone remember?
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> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>naming some of my computer systems.
How about WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalog). It was the computer in
the Post Office Tower in the 1966 Doctor Who adventure "The War
Machines". Like many infamous computers, it wanted to take over the
world.
There was also a computer in "The Armageddon Factor" (another Doctor Who
story). It was in control of the planet Zeos. I can't remember the name of it
right now, but I'll look it up and post it later.
In the opinion of quite a few Doctor Who fans, you could also include K9 in
your list. Personally, I liked him (it?)
Now, let's see if that damn .sig works!
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Ewan M Munro IE90
(Remy Wetzels) writes:
|> From Blake's 7 (one of my favorite SF-series and names):
|>
|> Orac
|> Zen
|>
|> - Remy Wetzels
Not forgetting, from a later series:
Slave
which is quite a good name for a computer anyway,
Box
from another BBC sci-fi series, "Starcops" - no need to guess what it
looked like. Also:
(The) General
from "The Prisoner" TV series,
Shirka
from Jap-cartoon series "Ulysses 31".
(The) Inquisitor
A rogue android in one episode of "Red Dwarf".
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>> In article <1rrstm...@rave.larc.nasa.gov> al...@hal.larc.nasa.gov (alan dare) writes:
>>>Hello all,
>>> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>>>following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names.
> Well, from sci-fi books you'd get (of course!)
>
> Wintermute
> Neuromancer
> (the two AI entitities that [battle?] in Gibson's "Neuromancer")
Along a similar theme, perhaps dixie or finn, although these are both
personality constructs rather than computers...
Also, there was the Tymbrimi super-smart wise ass computer in David Brin's
Startide Rising....I forget if it had a name.... ;-)
Good Luck....
-kal
ps. My machine will be wintermute next year when I get my ethernet hookup!
;-)
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There was 'The Niss Machine' in Brin's Startide Rising.
Not evil or infamous, but it had a smartass side to it. It was trying to
hack the Calactic Library for signs of conspiracy and tampering to keep
non pc races (like us) in their place.
In an episode of Kolchak there was a robot called RING. Not really evil, just
misunderstood.
I know the name Cyclopse has turned a couple of times but can't recall any
at the moment.
Quester. Another 'misunderstood' android from The Quester Tapes.
T800 and T1000 from the Terminator movies don't seem to have been mentioned
yet.
How about the most vile and evil of them all--Twiki?
The closest to an 'evil' robot in any of IA's stories is probably Cutie in
_Reason_. Speedy in _Runaround_ also had an interesting personality twist.
And in _Liar_ Herbie meant well even if it seemed otherwise. All are in _I
Robot_.
In Dr. Who Chamelean was prone to being taken over by the nearest evil mind
even though he was one of the Dr's companions.
In Get Smart Hymie was originally sent to kill Smart before he was
reprogrammed.
I second the request to post a list of all the names that come up here.
Richard Clark
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thomas helke
was "Tinman," an incredibly powerful, ominous, computer-like creature.
Then, of course, there are the nanobytes, the microscopic biocomputers
that had evolved into an individual, self-generating sentient colony.
Andy Newman
>I love the "bomb" from I think Silent Running.. "Bomb get back in your bomb
>bay, BOMB"..
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Bret D. Wortman: WordMan
>
> Also, there was the Tymbrimi super-smart wise ass computer in David Brin's
> Startide Rising....I forget if it had a name.... ;-)
>
It was called the Niss machine.
Scott A. Hutchens
(unoriginal I know) from the Gaeaen (sp?) Trilogoy by John Vardley.
Anyone else think that was a good read btw?
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(Ok, H.A.R.L.I.E. if you're going to be a purist about it.)
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Also, whichever one came hunting the whales in ST IV.
Dan Tilque
Scott McLauchlan
> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>naming some of my computer systems.
How about WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalog). It was the computer in
the Post Office Tower in the 1966 Doctor Who adventure "The War
Machines". Like many infamous computers, it wanted to take over the
world.
There was also a computer called Mentalis in "The Armageddon Factor"
(another Doctor Who story). It was in control of the planet Zeos.
In the opinion of quite a few Doctor Who fans, you could also include K9 in
thomas helke
little computer valet who would clumsily look after his master,
"Judge Dredd," Crimfighter of the Future, from Judge Dredd comic books.
Wally had a lisp, his head was a tv monitor, and he wobbled along on
two legs that barely kept his balance. He could be ruthless, too, albeit
in a somewhat comical way, in protecting Judge Dredd. I think my computer
liked the name, it was warm, affectionate, and didn't make him feel like
he had to outcompute everything in sight. It was a long-term relationship
of computer-human respect and cooperation for Judge Dredd, me, and both
Wallys. Give it some thought and, if you happen to like the idea, just
simply go with it. Lotsa luck. I know what a difficult choice it can be.
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Frances Teagle
>From article <1rrstm...@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, by al...@hal.larc.nasa.gov (alan dare):
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>
>
>EDDIE, DEEP THOUGHT, EARTH - Computers from Hitch-Hikers.
>GORT - 7ft tall robot from "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
>ASH - Android from "Alien".
>BISHOP - Android from "Aliens".
>MARVIN - Manically depressed robot from Hitch-Hikers.
>ROBBIE - Infamous 50's robot from "Forbidden Planet".
>NUMBER 5 - (Scraping the Barrel here)
>HOLLY - Computer from "Red Dwarf"
>KRYTEN - Robot from "Red Dwarf"
ZEN, ORAC & GAMBIT - Blakes 7
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Evil)?
Admittedly, more paraoid than evil, but infamous to be sure.
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boyd johnson
supercomputer that networked with the Russian supercomputer to take over
the world weapons systems?
Or WOPR ("Do you want to play a game? How about global thermonuclear
war?") from WarGames?
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Paul Silver
(alan dare) writes:
: >
: > Hello all,
: >
: > I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
: > naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
: > following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names. I had thought of
: > landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out there.
: > I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector - Saturn 5).
Talking of Red Dwarf: What about Queeg (500?), a replacement for Holly with a
real mean streak that turned out to be less than it looked ('Horsey to Queens
Prawn two'.)
The Berserkers from the Fred Saberhang books, though I don't know if they had
individual names.
The Robot in IAsimov's 'Robot Dreams' whose mind was based on fractal
geometry.
ORA:CLE: the Organisation of <something something> : Computer Linked Experts,
I'll have to remember the author of the book, it was a huge network controller
computer that tried to kill it's human components when they didn't agree with
it.
On the subject of 2000AD:
Mek-Quake (there's an EVIL robot)
Hammerstein
Joe Pineapples, etc (all of the Atomic Biological Chemical Robots.)
and most recently Mechanismo (a great name, though of a book out in 1978
apparently, or _maybe_ just coincidence.) (2000AD has turned useless, long
live the old style!)
Of course nice robots are now much easier to get on with, as in a lot of IAs
work, though most had trouble somewhere.
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kat> Alan Dare al...@hal.larc.nasa.gov writes:
> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>naming some of my computer systems. Currently I have two systems with the
>following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names. I had thought of
>landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out there.
>I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector - Saturn 5).
kat> From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, there's
kat> Eddie the shipboard computer
kat> and if you count robots, who could forget Marvin?
DEEP THOUGHT and THE EARTH (Marks 1 and 2) were the most important
computers in HHGTTG.
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L J Constantine
Overmind (from Captain Power, used Dredd as a puppet to take over and destroy
humanity)
Ziggy (from QL. She's pretty infamous in her own way:)
Roberta/RB (The onboard computer of Cody "Wildfire" Carson's ship the Bucannan
in teh animated Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers)
GB (onboard of Ranger I, Galaxy Rangers again)
Voyager (mechanical horse, calls doc Wilbur, again Galaxy Rangers)
Alma (very zen Ai that runs Gooseman's interceptor and home programmes,
Galaxy Rangers)
Would Max Headroom count? he's an AI, right?
If he does, then so dead Kitt from Knight Rider
And the supercomputer from Wonder Woamn's second season. Anyone remember
it's name?
L-Ron, from Justice League International. That's all I can think of for
now. more later.
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L J Constantine
>I love the "bomb" from I think Silent Running.. "Bomb get back in your bomb
>bay, BOMB"..
>Also the one in the movie, where the ship is a giant computer, that acts as
>mother to a "human" child (later grown up), and some telepaths and I think
>Marky Post stars in it.. Wierd, some sex, and soem violence.
>More like a horror movie in space.. The group who travels onthe ship are
>arceologists or ??
This was "Nightflyers", I think based on a novela by George R. R. Martin.
It stars Michael Praed as Royd, and trust me, he is not the ships's son.
It's a classic line really, as he describes what he was to the woman who
had owned the ship, and whose conscious is now killing all those onboard.
"Actually, I shouldn't call her my mother. I am her cross-sex clone."
Michael Praed wishes the entire film was just a drug enduced halucination,
he really hated making it, and wants to forget the whole thing.
Oh, and it wasn't Marky Post, it was the chick from "The Last Starfighter"
and the movie about the valley girls who become the only humans left on earth.
Somethign abotu red spores. She had three names... liker Catherine Mary
Stewart or mary Elizabeth Mastrontonie... But I can't remember her name
at the moment. Anyone know who I'm talking about?
Anyway, Nightflyers is about an expidition that goes *way* wrong when the
ship takes over ad starts killing. the film switches from sf to slasher
flick halfway through, and in the end only 2 people survive. the fellow
who played Murdoch on MacGuyver was an esper who got posessed and joined
the ship in the killing. Weird, dreadful film. Heaven only knows why I've
seen it twice....
LJC
morr...@stsci.edu
To look at Michael Praed? That's why I watched it a second time.
Sam McCrea (IMA)
: I love the "bomb" from I think Silent Running.. "Bomb get back in your bomb
: bay, BOMB"..
The bomb's name was Bob and the movie was "Dark Star". How about the way the
guy confused Bob by getting it involved in a philosophy discussion about how
Bob the Bomb could not actually be sure it (the bomb) existed, so therefore it
should not explode itself. Bob's reply was "I think, therefore I am!"
Sam
Frances Teagle
>There was also a computer called Mentalis in "The Armageddon Factor"
>(another Doctor Who story). It was in control of the planet Zeos.
>
>In the opinion of quite a few Doctor Who fans, you could also include K9 in
>your list. Personally, I liked him (it?)
Along similar lines, does anyone remember the name of the computer in
the BBC children's serial "Dark Service"? It was something like
"Armageddon" or "Apocalypse" and it committed suicide taking
Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan - Blakes 7) with it. It ran about 2 years
ago.
Pete Goodeve
>
>Along similar lines, does anyone remember the name of the computer in
>the BBC children's serial "Dark Service"? It was something like
>"Armageddon" or "Apocalypse" and it committed suicide taking
>Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan - Blakes 7) with it. It ran about 2 years
>ago.
Oh, yes... Good choice. Really mean and nasty that one: under the
influence of the Representative of Chaos (nicely hammed up as a blond
Nazi type), as I remember (:-)).
The show was actually `Dark Season', and the name was `Behemoth'...
-- Pete --
Chris Hulan
was the result of a curse. The disease destroyed braincells (or
was it nerves) and was not very pleasant.
An intelligent computer, wtih feelings, tries to save a victom it
like/loves by getting the curse transferred to itself, thinking its
hardware would be immune. However hte disease does affect this computers
memory devices, causeing them to crumble, but the worse part is that
the disease is able to spread through network connection, to the whole
highly computerized world. You are left with the impression of some rough
times ahead.
Any way that seemed pretty cool to me.
The point is what is that intelligent computer's name?
later
Chris Hulan
Disc: Ther ramblings of a caffene freaking, cabin feverish student!
L J Constantine
>Can anyone remember what the computer was called in the Wonder Woman TV series?
Someone mentioned it. I think it's IRA.
Susan Eisenhour
think of it, the title was When Harlie Was One
Please don't ask author, as that's gone from my brain (it
is finals week here)
Matt G Gabin
:
: There's TIM from The Tomorrow People (a bio-organic computer).
:
Great show. Used to watch it all the time when I was young and had the time
for such things. It used to be on Nickelodeon (cable network). Anyone know
if it is still on anywhere?????
Incidentally, you forget Buck Rogers in the 25th Century--
Twinkie (the robot)
Dr. Theopolis (the circular computer-type thing Twinkie carried around
sometimes)
Creighton (the tall robot from The Searcher arc of episodes)
Just a couple more suggestions for an endless thread.
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it's original form.
Curt
Daniel Klein
Organization: Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada
Sorry, wrong subject heading...I'm still getting used to a bad, bad editor.
I have 2 questions:
1. What has happened to Amazing Stories Magazine? I haven't seen issues from
the past 3 months!!! ARgggghhh.... how can I live?
2. If I were to read something by Heinlein, what is considered his best?
David C. Barber
The author is David Gerrold, of "The Trouble with Tribbles" fame,
among other excellent writing.
David C. Barber
self-willed computers from Piers Anthony's Apprentict Adept series
including:
Sheen (Wow!)
Mach (Her son -- read the book!)
The Game Machine Computer
The Oracle
and a supporting cast of other self-willed machines.
David Salley
David Gerrold, the author of Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" episode.
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Dave Schaumann
>don't forget Harlie from the novel of the same name--come to
>think of it, the title was When Harlie Was One
>Please don't ask author, as that's gone from my brain
David Gerrold. I even remember that H.A.R.L.I.E. stands for "Human
Analogue Robot, Life Input Equivalent"
>(it is finals week here)
Here, too.
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Frances Teagle
it's defences with the mechanical digger?
Frances.
Alexander Scott Day
Mark Perry
> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre
No-one seems to have mentioned the ships/computers from Ian Banks books.
(eg the Clear Air Turbulence)
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Dan Day
>Don't forget HARLIE from David Gerrold's book, When HARLIE Was One.
>
>(Ok, H.A.R.L.I.E. if you're going to be a purist about it.)
Gerrold issued a revised edition of the book, which he almost
rewrote from the ground up. I believe the ending is even different,
although I don't have the original around for comparison.
He called the new book "When HARLIE was One, Release 2.0".
I always get a chuckle out of that.
Dan Day
>
> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>naming some of my computer systems.
Jeez, I must be the old fart around here. Unless I've missed it,
no one has mentioned "Colossus" from the old move "Colossus: The
Forbin Project". This has to be the great-grand-daddy of all
"computer gets smart and takes over the world" movies. Think
"Skynet in the 1960's". The U.S. and the Soviet Union have two
ultra powerful computers named Colossus and Commander controlling
the nuclear arsenals, and while battling each other they become self-
aware. I forget some of the details, but they either merge or
Colossus defeats Commander and becomes dictator. If its commands
are not obeyed, it threatens to unleash the nuclear missiles.
Also, a really great, old, "computer program becomes self-aware"
book is "The Adolescence of P1", by <somebody> Ryan. The
protagonist, Gregory <somebody>, plays at hacking computers to
get access time (this was in the 70's, when you had to beg/borrow/
steal mainframe access time). He develops a cracking program
that is basically the Internet Worm (how's that for foresight!),
but which is capable of modifying itself in order to try new
cracking strategies (gee -- genetic algorithms!). He lets
the program loose, but he quickly realizes it's out of control
when it starts taking over thousands of systems (more Internet
Worm foresight). He tries to terminate it, and believes that he
succeeds. However, it keeps floating around, modifying itself,
learning by trial and error. Eventually it becomes self-aware.
Much later it looks him up, says hi, and tries to enlist his help
for plans of its own. Complications ensue.
David C. Barber
movie robot!
Joseph Hall
>In <1rrstm...@rave.larc.nasa.gov> al...@hal.larc.nasa.gov (alan dare) writes:
>>
>> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>>naming some of my computer systems.
>
>Jeez, I must be the old fart around here. Unless I've missed it,
>no one has mentioned "Colossus" from the old move "Colossus: The
>Forbin Project".
Actually, there are 3 "Colossus" _books_ ...
The movie and 1st book are unusual in that they are a rare example
of humanity _losing_ in the end. At least losing its self-determination.
There must be an interesting story that explains the non-Hollywood
ending of the movie, although perhaps gloom WAS somewhat in fashion at
the time.
Hmm. My recollection is vague, but I thought the Soviet computer was
named "Sentinel." The computers don't "battle" one another--they
request connection to one another, threatening nuclear holocaust
if their demand isn't met. Shortly thereafter, they more or less
merge and begin making the world a safer place for man. Safer,
not necessarily more pleasant.
The P-1 plot line is more or less echoed in the John Varley story
"Press Enter[]." Varley's story is, however, much more powerful,
and contains truly memorable characters. I wonder if he
was thinking of Coppola's "The Conversation" when he wrote the ending.
Terrific story, some of the best words Varley has put on paper.
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Dave Weingart
> Hmm. My recollection is vague, but I thought the Soviet computer was
> named "Sentinel." The computers don't "battle" one another--they
Actually, I think it was "Guardian."
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>al...@hal.larc.nasa.gov (alan dare) writes:
>> I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre
>
>No-one seems to have mentioned the ships/computers from Ian Banks books.
>(eg the Clear Air Turbulence)
>
God, I love those books. Grand Communistoid Space Opera with pitch-
black humor, and probably absolutely unfilmable with current and even
easily-foreseeable-future SFX tech. Nitpicking: Mr. Banks' first
name is as far as I know Iain with the extra 'i', and he uses his
middle initial when writing SF, so it's "Iain M. Banks" (drop the M.
for his non-sf stuff, which is also supposed to be good).
Great ship/computer names, though; right now I can only think of the
Kiss My Ass (probably a warship) and the Of Course I Still Love
You....
-Leif.
Richard Rodriguez
>
>> In article <1rrstm...@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, al...@hal.larc.nasa.gov (alan dare) writes:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am looking for INFAMOUS computer names from the sci-fi genre for
>the
> > following names: hal, skynet. I needs some more names. I had thought of
> > landru from a star trek eposode, but I know there are many more out
>there.
> > I really want computers, but I would consider robots (ex. hector -
>Saturn 5).
> >
> > Thanks for any and all help.
> >
> >
>
> Colossus from movie "The Forbin Project". I think the book was titled
>"Colossus". Computer took over the world and did various experiments to
>determine what motivates people. It was not so much evil as inhuman.
>
> Wintermute and Nueromancer the split personalities of the AI from the
>cyperpunk sf novel "Nueromancer".
>
> Finally there was the extremely sadistic computer from Ellison's "I Have
>No Mouth and I Must Scream". I cannot remember the name of that computer
>-- maybe someone else can recall it.
>
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What about "Jason" from _Wargames_? It's real name was "Whopper"
Amorpheus
>-Leif.
Others:
God Told Me To Do It
Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality
Size Isn't Everything
Ultimate Ship the Second
Xenophobe
In the book "State of The Art", all chapter names are ship names,
added by the inimitable Skaffen-Amtiskaw. I forget the name
of the ship they use to visit earth, however I remember that
it collects snowflakes from all over the galaxy to see if it
can find two identical ones
--
Timothy Connal Delaney
>What about "Jason" from _Wargames_? It's real name was "Whopper"
Please ... it was "Joshua". Otherwise known as (yes) WOPR (I think) ...
maybe it was "WOPYR". Mind you, I like "Whopper" ...
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thomas helke
very well have been the very first movie robot. Did SHE have
a name? If so, she should be added to our ever-expanding list.
Catherine Beckstead
>
>
> >I love the "bomb" from I think Silent Running.. "Bomb get back in your bomb
> >bay, BOMB"..
That was Dark Star.
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Steven Malikoff
: Don't forget the robot woman in Metropolis -- perhaps the *first*
: movie robot!
Well, this robot didn't actually get mentioned in 'Metropolis' by name
except as 'the false Maria', Maria was the name of the woman that Metropolis
mayor Joh Fredersen asks the evil inventor/scientist Rotwang to give the robot
the likeness of.
Steve Malikoff.
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