Computer or A.I. characters in Sci-fi



    * Movies

          o HAL-9000. One of the most famous.

          o SAL-9000. His sister.

          o The Master Control Program a.k.a. MCP in Tron.

          o SKYNET from the Terminator movies, despite not having any screen time.

          o The Puppetmaster a.k.a. Project 2501 in Ghost in the Shell.

          o Colossus - from the eponymous movie.

          o Mother and Father - from the Alien movie series. 



    * Television

          o ORAC - smartass from Blake's 7.

          o Eddie the Shipboard Computer - from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

          o Dr. Theophilus - from the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV show (he wasn't mobile, he was a frisbee).

          o Antikythera - From Dr. Who.

          o Holly - from Red Dwarf.

          o Joshua - in War Games.

          o K.I.T.T. (and K.A.R.R.) from Knight Rider, although this is on the edge, as they were mobile. (thanks rootbeer77!)

          o The Matrix.

          o Melchior, Balthasar, and Caspar (spelling help from lj - thanks!) - from Neon Genesis Evangelion. 



    * Books

          o Neuromancer and Wintermute from William Gibson's Neuromancer

          o Continuity from Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson (thanks Zerotime!)

          o AIVAS from the Pern series by Anne McCaffrey (also from Zerotime)

          o Frost, The Beta-Machine, Divcom and Solcom from Roger Zelazny's excellent For A Breath I Tarry.

          o H.A.R.L.I.E. from When HARLIE was one

          o VISAR, JEVEX and Zorac, the Shapieron's computer from James P. Hogan's Giants Trilogy.

          o Cortana from Halo: the Fall of Reach and the game Halo (Thanks mirv!)

          o Jane from the Ender trilogy.

          o Aleph, Memex (aka HeyMex) and the Adviser (aka Mr Johnson) From Tom Maddox's superb novel Halo.

          o Mandrake - Jack Butler's novel Nightshade.

          o Mycroft Holmes - Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.

          o Minerva, Athene and Gay Deceiver - Time Enough For Love and its sequels.

          o The Librarian - from Snow Crash.

          o Ghostwheel - from the Amber series by Zelazny.

          o AM - in Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream.

          o The Central Computer ("CC") from John Varley's Steel Beach.

          o Master System - from Jack L. Chalker's series, The Rings of the Master.

          o Big Boppers - from Rudy Rucker's Software, offers eponymous.

          o The First Sirian Bank from Terry Pratchett's book The Dark Side of the Sun, contributed by Zerotime.

          o Melchizedek, the computer which runs Salem in the manga Gun Dream, a.k.a. Battle Angel Alita (from Glowing Fish).

          o Hex from the Discworld series, also by Pratchett, contributed by Uberbanana.

          o Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, since as Uberbanana points out he's got a (critical) speaking part.

          o Hactar from Life, the Universe and Everything, according to Oneiromancer and Polkovnik.

          o The Solid State Entity from Neverness, by Zindell, contributed by auraseer. 



    * Games, RPG

          o The Computer from Paranoia! (thanks again mirv!)

          o SHODAN - System Shock.

          o Xerxes - System Shock 2.

          o Ava Johnson, Daedalus, Icarus, and Helios - AIs from Deus Ex.

          o Durandal - he is the star in the Marathon FPS series for the Macintosh. 



    * Star Trek: TOS gets its own section. See also The Star Trek Project for more/better info!

          o M-5 Duotronic - The Ultimate Computer (TOS)

          o Landru - Return of the Archons (TOS)

          o Losira - That Which Survives (TOS)

          o Vaal - The Apple (TOS)

          o The Oracle - For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky (TOS)

          o The Guardian Of Forever - The City on the Edge of Forever (TOS)