In 1968 the film was released 2001: A Space Odyssey, a futuristic film full of very strange details. This Stanley Kubrick work soon became a cult film with varied interpretations. Without a doubt, one of the central elements of the plot was a computer with very human reactions called HAL 9000. Official sources related to the film have always insisted that the device's name comes from the expression heuristically programmed algorithmic computer, what does it mean algorithmic computer programmed with heuristics. But there's a long-standing urban legend that claims the name HAL is actually an alphabetical transposition of another name: what you get if you take the letter that follows the originals in alphabetical order, that is, IBM. The computer manufacturer IBM has been firmly embedded in popular culture around the world for many years.