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==Content== [[Image:Hendler.jpg|right]]As a 12-year-old boy in 1969 watching ''2001: A Space Odyssey'', James Hendler’s eyes became fixed on HAL-9000, the computer that could predict equipment failure, be a team player, throw in a few philosophical lines for good measure, and sing “Bicycle Built for Two” while going insane. The movie inspired the senior constellation professor of Rensselaer’s Tetherless World Research Constellation into a lifelong career in artificial intelligence (AI) and computing that has spanned more than three decades. “The people in the movie were boring, but the computer was fascinating,” he says with a chuckle. “I wanted to create that level of artificial intelligence someday. The idea of a computer that, not so much could talk, but could understand and do so much was just brilliant.”... ([http://www.rpi.edu/about/inside/issue/v1n1/hendler.html more])
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