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No, the point about HAL 9000 being named after IBM isn't true:

The video game company HAL Laboratory (maker of the Kirby series)... they did name their company so each letter was one before IBM:

Thanks, I stand corrected. It was a fun theory though and it will probably not go away anytime soon.

Kubrick himself claimed HAL stood for "heuristic and algorithmic" according to this article: