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Ship's Computer (voiced by Majel Barrett), the unnamed Duotronic computer of the Starship Enterprise (1966-1974) - A standard functioning computer except in the episodes "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (1967) when the computer had been imbued with a female personality which didn't always give desired responses and "The Practical Joker" (1974) when an ...
Hungarian hardware character generator. A character generator, often abbreviated as CG, is a device or software that produces static or animated text (such as news crawls and credits rolls) for keying into a video stream. Modern character generators are computer-based, and they can generate graphics as well as text.
&name; where name is the case-sensitive name of the entity. The semicolon is required. Because numbers are harder for humans to remember than names, character entity references are most often written by humans, while numeric character references are most often produced by computer programs. [1]
Franz Hopper – genius in quantum physics and computer programming responsible for the creation of the virtual reality Lyoko, malevolent AI XANA and the advanced hardware that support both; Van Kleiss (Generator Rex) – main antagonist; Kowalski (Penguins of Madagascar) – team's scientist and inventor
Kevin Flynn (portrayed by Jeff Bridges) is a former employee of the software company ENCOM and the protagonist of the first film.. He is the owner of the arcade Flynn's, where he impresses his patrons with his skill at games that he designed at ENCOM, while searching for evidence that Ed Dillinger, Vice President of ENCOM, plagiarized his work to advance his position within the company.
The character Phong's name is an allusion to the game Pong [5] —he has a rule that any who seek his advice must first play him in a game of physical Pong, shown on-screen in the first few episodes—and to Phong shading, an interpolation method (itself named after computer scientist Bui Tuong Phong) used in three-dimensional graphics rendering.
On radio, the characters are just called First computer programmer and Second computer programmer, and appear in Fit the Fourth of the radio series, and are played by Ray Hassett and Jeremy Browne respectively. In the 2005 movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, they are merged with the characters of Frankie and Benjy Mouse.
"Maschinenmensch" from the 1927 film Metropolis. Statue in Babelsberg, Germany. This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema; however, robots that have appeared in more than one form of media are not necessarily listed in each of those media.