blog postsIllinois' early supercomputer that inspired HAL from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’Apr 27, 2015 2:00 pm by etwilson@illinois.eduIllinois in the NewsShare on FacebookTweetEmailImagesFusion (April 25) - Conceived at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the 50s and 60s, the room-sized behemoth was the most powerful number-crunching machine of its time.Share on FacebookTweetEmail