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Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick disagreed on what HAL's birthday should be. Kubrick wanted HAL to be about the age of a child, so his death would have more emotional impact. But Clarke insisted that even a computer that age would be too old to be used for such an important mission. In Clarke's book, HAL's age was four (12 January 1997), while in the movie it was nine (12 January 1992). This disagreement resurfaced nearly 30 years later when film critic Roger Ebert held a birthday party for HAL 9000 by screening this film in Urbana, Illinois in 1997, the date and place of HAL's birth in the novel (Ebert was also born in Urbana). Clarke and Kubrick were both invited. Clarke accepted his invitation and made an appearance at the festivities via satellite, but Kubrick declined, stating that they missed HAL's birthday in 1992. Another inconsistency in this scene is the name of HAL's first instructor. It is Mr. Langley in this movie but is Dr. Chandra in all other books and movies in this series. Since HAL is saying all this while being shut down, this could be interpreted as a result of memory failure. But also Langley, Virginia happens to be the home of America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a metonym that might have appealed to Kubrick.

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