HAL

__NOTOC__HAL or Hal may refer to:

People

Hal is a short form of the English name Harold or Henry.
* Hal Prince (born 1928), producer and director
* Hal Barwood, game designer
* Hal Jordan, the silver age Green Lantern
* Hal ("A Series of Unfortunate Events"), a character from "A Series of Unfortunate Events"
* Hal ("Malcolm in the Middle"), a fictional character from the TV series "Malcolm in the Middle"
* Prince Hal, Henry V of England in several of Shakespeare's historical plays, especially before he became king

Places

*Hal, Azerbaijan

oftware

* Ultra Hal Assistant, an artificial intelligence assistant made by Zabaware
* HAL/S, the computer language used to program the space shuttle's computers
* Hardware abstraction layer, a layer of software that hides hardware differences from higher level programs
*HAL (software), a software project for Linux and FreeBSD that allows hardware to be located and used regardless of bus or device type

Business

* Hamburg America Line, a shipping company
* Hawaiian Airlines
* Het Amsterdams Lyceum, a Dutch term meaning the Lyceum of Amsterdam
* Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, India's largest aerospace company
* Holland America Line, a cruise ship operator
* HAL Laboratory, a Japanese video game developer
* HAL Computer Systems, a defunct computer manufacturer
* HAL, the NYSE ticker symbol for the Halliburton corporation

Other

* HAL 9000, a fictional computer in the "Space Odyssey" series
* HΛL, a group of Japanese music arrangers
* HAL 5, an electrically powered exoskeleton suit
* Hal (band), from Ireland
* Hal (coyote), a coyote who wandered into New York City in 2006
* Hyundai A-League, an Australian professional association football league
* Hyper Articles en Ligne, a French online research archive from the French research council CNRS
* Hal, the French name for Halle, Belgium
* CHNS-FM, aka HAL-FM, a classic rock station in Halifax, Nova Scotia
* Hyperspace Analogue to Language (HAL), a semantic memory model