Computers as characters in Sci-Fi

So, let's see if we can get a truly comprehensive list of all the computers that count as characters from Sci-fi. I hold a robot to be different from a computer, because it's mobile; although they count as characters, their mobility anthropomorphizes them. Therefore, the fact that they are full characters isn't as interesting. So here's what I came up with off the top of my head. I'm mostly thinking of movies and TV; books are cool too!

Computer or A.I. characters in Sci-fi

• Movies
  • HAL-9000. One of the most famous.
  • SAL-9000. His sister.
  • The Master Control Program a.k.a. MCP in Tron.
  • SKYNET from the Terminator movies, despite not having any screen time.
  • The Puppetmaster a.k.a. Project 2501 in Ghost in the Shell.
  • Colossus - from the eponymous movie.
  • The Matrix (debatable)
  • Mother and Father - from the Alien movie series.
  • Bomb #20 from Dark Star ( Thanks DejaMorgana)
  
  
• Television
  • ORAC - smartass from Blake's 7.
  • Eddie the Shipboard Computer - from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
  • Dr. Theophilus - from the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV show (he wasn't mobile, he was a frisbee).
  • Antikythera - From Dr. Who.
  • Holly - from Red Dwarf.
  • Joshua - in War Games.
  • K.I.T.T. (and K.A.R.R.) from Knight Rider, although this is on the edge, as they were mobile. (thanks rootbeer77!)
  • Melchior, Balthasar, and Caspar (spelling help from lj - thanks!) - from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  
  
• Books
  • Iain Banks' The Culture gets its own node!
  • Neuromancer and Wintermute from William Gibson's Neuromancer
  • Continuity from Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson (thanks Zerotime!)
  • AIVAS from the Pern series by Anne McCaffrey (also from Zerotime)
  • Frost, The Beta-Machine, Divcom and Solcom from Roger Zelazny's excellent For A Breath I Tarry.
  • H.A.R.L.I.E. from When HARLIE was one
  • VISAR, JEVEX and Zorac, the Shapieron's computer from James P. Hogan's Giants Trilogy.
  • Cortana from Halo: the Fall of Reach and the game Halo (Thanks mirv!)
  • Jane from the Ender trilogy.
  • Aleph, Memex (aka HeyMex) and the Adviser (aka Mr Johnson) From Tom Maddox's superb novel Halo.
  • Mandrake - Jack Butler's novel Nightshade.
  • Mycroft Holmes - Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
  • Minerva, Athene and Gay Deceiver - Time Enough For Love and its sequels.
  • The Librarian - from Snow Crash.
  • Ghostwheel - from the Amber series by Zelazny.
  • AM - in Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream.
  • The Central Computer ("CC") from John Varley's Steel Beach.
  • Master System - from Jack L. Chalker's series, The Rings of the Master.
  • Big Boppers - from Rudy Rucker's Software, offers eponymous.
  • The First Sirian Bank from Terry Pratchett's book The Dark Side of the Sun, contributed by Zerotime.
  • Melchizedek, the computer which runs Salem in the manga Gun Dream, a.k.a. Battle Angel Alita (from Glowing Fish).
  • Hex from the Discworld series, also by Pratchett, contributed by Uberbanana.
  • Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, since as Uberbanana points out he's got a (critical) speaking part.
  • Hactar from Life, the Universe and Everything, according to Oneiromancer and Polkovnik.
  • The Solid State Entity from Neverness, by Zindell, contributed by auraseer.
  • Holmes IV a.k.a. 'Mike' from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, contributed by Browncoat.
  
  
• Games, RPG
  • The Computer from Paranoia! (thanks again mirv!)
  • SHODAN - System Shock.
  • Xerxes - System Shock 2.
  • Ava Johnson, Daedalus, Icarus, Helios and Morpheus (thanks Morkel!) - AIs from Deus Ex.
  • Durandal - he is the star in the Marathon FPS series for the Macintosh.
  
  
• Star Trek: TOS gets its own section. See also The Star Trek Project for more/better info!
  • M-5 Duotronic - The Ultimate Computer (TOS)
  • Landru - Return of the Archons (TOS)
  • Losira - That Which Survives (TOS)
  • Vaal - The Apple (TOS)
  • The Oracle - For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky (TOS)
  • The Guardian Of Forever - The City on the Edge of Forever (TOS)
  
  
• Comics: Okay, we're drifting from Sci-Fi here.
  • The Banana PC from Bloom County. Borderline; despite having feet, he was clearly a computer.
  • The iFruit from Foxtrot (Thanks Uberbanana!

This list is deliberately sparse...add on!

Thanks to General_Wesc, Starrynight and Magenta for corrections!
Other contributions from ratbastid, fondue, samgrover, Gorgonzola, Segnbora-T, getzburg, Wyclef, et. al

The minds that populate Iain Banks's Culture universe are, in my opinion, examples of some of the better "computer's as characters" in Sci-Fi.

While the majority of the Minds are ensconced within spaceships, I don't think that The Custodian would consider them robots (vis a vis, his W/U at the top of this node),as their anthropomorphism is generally neglible, so their inclusion in this list is a must.

The Banks novel "Excession" features Minds in much more prominent/active roles than his other Culture novels and features some of the more interesting and expressive minds in his universe.

In addition to being quite entertaining characters, the Minds, hands down, have the best names for computer character in Sci-Fi.

Examples:

• ROU Killing Time
• ROU Frank Exchange of Views
• GSV Quietly Confident/Sleeper Service
• GSV Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival
• GCU Fate Amenable to Change
• GSV Zero Gravitas
• GSV Wisdom Like Silence

For a wonderfully done compilation of Mind characters, please check out Culture Ship Names.