HAL

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HAL or Hal may refer to:

[edit] People

Hal is a short form of the English name Harold or Henry.

• Hal Prince (born 1928), producer and director
• Hal Barwood, game designer
• Hal (A Series of Unfortunate Events), a character from A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Hal (Malcolm in the Middle), a fictional character from the TV series Malcolm in the Middle
• Prince Hal, Henry V of England in several of Shakespeare's historical plays, especially before he became king

[edit] Software

• Ultra Hal Assistant, an artificial intelligence assistant made by Zabaware
• HAL/S, the computer language used to program the space shuttle's computers
• Hardware abstraction layer, a layer of software that hides hardware differences from higher level programs
• HAL (software), a software project for Linux and FreeBSD that allows hardware to be located and used regardless of bus or device type

[edit] Business

• Hamburg America Line, a shipping company
• Hawaiian Airlines
• Het Amsterdams Lyceum, a Dutch term meaning the Lyceum of Amsterdam
• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, India's largest aerospace company
• Holland America Line, a cruise ship operator
• HAL Laboratory, a Japanese video game developer
• HAL Computer Systems, a defunct computer manufacturer
• HAL, the NYSE ticker symbol for the Halliburton corporation

[edit] Other

• HAL 9000, a fictional computer in the Space Odyssey series
• HΛL, a group of Japanese music arrangers
• HAL 5, an electrically powered exoskeleton suit
• Hal (band), from Ireland
• Hal (coyote), a coyote who wandered into New York City in 2006
• Hyundai A-League, an Australian professional association football league
• Hyper Articles en Ligne, a French online research archive from the French research council CNRS
• Hal, the French name for Halle, Belgium
• CHNS-FM, aka HAL-FM, a classic rock station in Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Hyperspace Analogue to Language (HAL), a semantic memory model