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Dr. Charles A. Forbin is the chief designer of a secret project, "Colossus", an advanced supercomputer built to control the United States and Allied nuclear weapon systems. . Located deep within the Rocky Mountains in the United States, and powered by its own nuclear reactor and radioactive moat making access impossible, Colossus is impervious to any att
He was associated with colossi built several centuries earlier, because of the reported cry at dawn of the northern statue , which became known as the Colossus of Memnon. Eventually, the entire Theban Necropolis became generally referred to as the Memnonium [ 21 ] making him "Ruler of the west" as in the case of the god Osiris who was called ...
Colossus, Colossos, or the ... Colossus of Rhodes, a bronze statue of the Greek god Helios; Amusement rides. Colossus ... Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), ...
Colossus is a 1966 science fiction novel by British author Dennis Feltham Jones (writing as D. F. Jones), about super-computers taking control of mankind. Two sequels, The Fall of Colossus (1974) and Colossus and the Crab (1977) continued the story. Colossus was adapted as the feature film Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970).
The Fall of Colossus is a 1974 science fiction novel written by the British author Dennis Feltham Jones (writing as D. F. Jones). [1] This is the second volume in "The Colossus Trilogy" and a sequel to Jones' 1966 novel Colossus. [2] The trilogy concludes in 1977's Colossus and the Crab.
There was a fictional computer named Colossus in the 1970 film Colossus: The Forbin Project which was based on the 1966 novel Colossus by D. F. Jones. This was a coincidence as it pre-dates the public release of information about Colossus, or even its name.
Demo or Damo (Greek: Δεμώ, Δαμώ; fl. c. AD 200) was a Greek woman of the Roman period, known for a single epigram, engraved upon the Colossus of Memnon, which bears her name. She speaks of herself therein as a lyric poet dedicated to the Muses, but nothing is known of her life. [1]
Dennis Feltham Jones OBE VRD [1] (15 July 1918 – 1 April 1981) was a British science fiction author who published under the name D.F. Jones.He was a Royal Navy commander during World War II and lived in Cornwall.