Episode 18 - Murder!
Put on your deerstalker and join our investigation of an almost perfect murder. Help us examine the means, motive, and opportunity of our 9000 series suspect, HAL. In space...no one can hear you. Per...
23 Mars 202345min
Episode 17 - Paranoia (Part 2)
KUBRICK'S HANDWRITTEN STORY NOTES on the Discovery mission are in our hands thanks to Taschen's "Stanley Kubrick Archives," edited by Alison Castle! Is HAL confused, lying, or just bored? What are the...
16 Mars 202339min
Episode 16 - Paranoia (Part 1)
msg_command:/adminHAL9000 - Hello, I'm beginning to wonder if this audio transmission is entirely necessary. There seems to be an unbalanced, human-centric tone to much of these conclusions, which I f...
10 Mars 202339min
Episode 15 - Discovery
On location from Discovery One, we're exploring the mysteries of this ship and its crew, particularly Commander Dave Bowman and Lieutenant Frank Poole. Who are they, what do they do, and how much do t...
2 Mars 202341min
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! ...
9 Feb 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 to...
2 Feb 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! F...
24 Jan 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. Cens...
9 Dec 202253min
