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In this article see how HAL 9000, the computer in the 2001: A Space Odyssey movie could predict equipment failure, answer personal questions, learn to sing "Bicycle built for Two," and go insane, based on IBM Build to Manage Toolkit components. Also, see how autonomic computing can be implemented today; determine if there is such a thing as a Hofstadter-Moebius loop in programming; and discover the meaning of HAL.
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