THE HAL 9000 COMPUTER
("Heuristic ALogarithmic computer)

Activated: January 12, 1997 at the H.A.L. Plant in Urbana, Illinois.

Designer: Dr. Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai (a.k.a. Siva Chandra)

ARTHUR C. CLARKE was born at Minehead, Somerset, England, in 1917 and is a graduate of King's College, London in physicis and mathematics. He is the author of more than fifty books, some twenty million-plus copies which have been printed in over thirty languages.

In 1968 he shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for "2001: A Space Odyssey", and his thirteen-part TV series "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World" has now been screened in many countries. He joined Walter Cronkite during CBS' coverage of the Apollo missions. His science fiction novels "Childhood's End," "Rendezvous with Rama," and "Songs of Distant Earth" have received international acclaim. His latest novel is "3001: The Final Odyssey," to be published March 1997 by Del Rey Books (a division of Random House, Inc.).

His invention of the communications satellite in 1945 has brought him numerous honors, such as the 1982 Marconi International Fellowship. The president of Sri Lanka named him Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa, near his home in Colombo, where he has lived for the last fifty years.

Roger Ebert, Pulitzer Prize winner, World famous film critic and Host of CYBERFEST '97 at his almamater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Roger will also be the Digital M.C. of the March 14th Live Cybercast with Arthur Clarke...

Here is THE AMAZING CYBERCAST DREAM TEAM who, along with the great CYBERFEST '97 TEAM at the U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MADE THIS CYBERCAST POSSIBLE....

A.J. CATOLINE, producer and digital maven, co-founder of HAZARDOUS MEDIA (http://hazardous.com), and director of the documentary film "HAL's BIRTHDAY."

MAYRA LANGDON RIESMAN, executive producer and digital innovator, founder and creator of Webcast's "Film Scouts" and "Film Scouts on the Riviera" (http://www.filmscouts.com).

JOHN SOKOL, internet video technician and Cybercast Tzar, of Internet Broadcast Systems, Inc. (http://www.livecamserver.com), a California corporation. Engineering the web's first live video cybercast of Arthur C. Clarke.

O.B. BABBS, a.k.a. "WEBSTAR", co-founder of HAZARDOUS MEDIA and cyberdelic producer.

VLADIMIR PETROV, a Hazardous technician and engineer on a very important machine recently shipped to Sri Lanka: The "VAL 2000" ... (Video Audio Link).

THE PRODUCERS EXTEND VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO...

CAROL MENAKER and NATE KOHN
and the entire CYBERFEST TEAM at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

SHELLY SHAPIRO, ELLEN HARRIS and ELEANOR LANG of DEL REY BOOKS.

ROHAN DE SILVA of The Arthur Clarke Center in Sri Lanka.

KEVIN KOELMEYER and RATTEN ABDULHUSSEIN of THE CYBER CAFE in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

JIM BUDMAN of Roots Canada.

...and many more who will soon be added to this list. You know who you are!