Computers as characters in Sci-Fi

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.
  
  
• 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!

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

• 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