Episode 14 - HAL Origins: To the Moon and Back
We're flipping through HAL's family snapshots of all the friends that allowed him to end up in space. From the human supercomputer Katherine Johnson to the revolutionary Apollo Navigational Computer! Make some more NOIZE for Robert Noyce, it's... The Integrated Circuit! Plus: HAL's blueprints, the military industrial complex, and building a ham & cheese sandwich-proof computer. Kubrick News: "Portrait Of A Lady On Fire" This Week In Science: charging planetary rovers (Windshield wipers for solar panels? Probably not.) Learn more and find our sources at www.spacepodyssey.com email us at spacepodyssey2001@gmail.com Twitter @spacepodyssey Facebook at @spacepodyssey
9 Helmi 202337min
Episode 13 - HAL Origins: Transistor Timez!
HAL remembers the glory days of UNIVAC & ERMA, and the rise of IBM. Shedding tubes for transistors and the explosion of coding in the 1950s and 1960s. Is it organics vs. machines or can we all come together? The answer is, as always, 42. Plus: UNIVAC likes IKE, Deep Blue, and the ultimate rock'nroller Robert Noyce (NOIZE)! Kubrick News: "Glass Onion", MINISTRY in "A.I." This Week In Science: quantum computers break block-chain codes? Learn more and find our sources at www.spacepodyssey.com email us at spacepodyssey2001@gmail.com Twitter @spacepodyssey Facebook at @spacepodyssey
2 Helmi 202340min
Episode 12 - HAL Origins: The ENIAC Women and Another Tube Bites The Dust
HAL is reflecting on mother figures this week with the OGs of computer programming at ENIAC and the pioneering efforts of Eckert & Mauchley. FLASH: U.S. Army Builds Top Secret Ballistics Calculator! FLASH: Women's Contributions Undervalued! FLASH: Being Ahead Of Your Time Sucks! FLASH: Census Is Boring To Fill Out! Plus: tea time, hot sausage machines, and steak and kidney pudding. This Week In Science (12-17-22): the discovery of 2 million year old eDNA, Artemis I Orion splashes down from a perfect first mission, and an exciting new breakthrough in nuclear fusion... The Secret History of The ENIAC Women | Kathy Kleiman | TEDxBeaconStreet The ENIAC Programmers Project Film Learn more and find our sources at www.spacepodyssey.com email us at spacepodyssey2001@gmail.com Twitter @spacepodyssey Facebook at @spacepodyssey
24 Tammi 202358min
Episode 10 - HAL Origins: Babbage to Bletchley Park
In getting to know our friend HAL, we're scrolling back to the earliest files on computing. It's the coolest in steampunk tech, the steamy age of Romantic poetry, and the sexiest of all: the U.S. Census! Foundations in Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Alan Turing and the Enigma project team at Bletchley Park, and how it's shaped the way computers evolved to think and how we've evolved to think today. Feedback loop? -oop? -oop?... Plus: crosswords, dogs, and Andy Capp's hot fries! Kubrick News: Todd Field and TAR Learn more and find our sources at www.spacepodyssey.com email us at spacepodyssey2001@gmail.com Twitter @spacepodyssey Facebook at @spacepodyssey
9 Joulu 202253min
Episode 11 - HAL Origins: Doctor Good and the Singularity
Deep in the data of the world's most famous computer is the memory and influence of Professor I. J. Good, special advisor to the production of 2001: A Space Odyssey and integral to the creation of the programming and personality of HAL-9000. Aside from aiding Alan Turing in the Enigma code-breaking computer during (and helping to end) World War II, perhaps his most significant work is the concept of "innovation explosion" or the "technological singularity." Is it coming or is it here? Is it inevitable? The philosophical and moral implications of our next evolutionary step. What does it mean to be human? Can you code compassion? Plus: Monkey Talk! Learn more and find our sources at www.spacepodyssey.com email us at spacepodyssey2001@gmail.com Twitter @spacepodyssey Facebook at @spacepodyssey
29 Marras 202238min
Episode 10 is where, HAL?
A peek behind the scenes on base at Clavius. We're sure this "faulty transmitter situation" will be cleared up soon... Learn more and find our sources at www.spacepodyssey.com email us at spacepodyssey2001@gmail.com Twitter @spacepodyssey Facebook at @spacepodyssey
29 Marras 20221min
Episode 9 - Moon Base Clavius
To celebrate the launch of Artemis I and the beginning of NASA's next chapter on the Moon, we're looking around our own home-sweet-home this week: Clavius Base! When was it built, and is it part of our evolutionary destiny? Were we meant to dig up the Monolith? How can we live here, and how many of you could potentially visit at one time? Turns out it's a pretty big place...but with very few snacks. Plus: getting up close to the Monolith, a weekend at the Overlook, and remembering Leon Vitali. Learn more and find our sources at www.spacepodyssey.com email us at spacepodyssey2001@gmail.com Twitter @spacepodyssey Facebook at @spacepodyssey
22 Marras 202241min
Episode 8 - Monolith: The Sentinel
The Monolith is back and so are we! After some brief R&R aboard Space Station V, we're back on base - full of Howard Johnson's and duty-free gin - and ready to explore the myth, the meaning, and the makeup of this most iconic of parallelograms. SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF ALERT!! This episode contains shockingly earthly materials and techniques used to build and film the monolith which may reduce your sense of awe and wonder. There will be a warning. Plus: the sound of liquor being poured onto Joan Collins. Learn more and find our sources at www.spacepodyssey.com email us at spacepodyssey2001@gmail.com Twitter @spacepodyssey Facebook at @spacepodyssey
15 Marras 202227min
