Arthur C. Clarke isn't credited with creating the first search engine; that honor goes to a student at McGill University during the infancy of the Internet. Clarke, however, certainly had a handle on what we're still looking for in his HAL 9000 creation—perhaps the most famous example of artificial intelligence of its era. If you'll pardon the quick trip back in movie history, HAL 9000 was the spaceship Discovery's paranoid central computer that ...