Dr. Chandra

Doctor Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai (often abbreviated to Dr. Chandra) is a fictional character from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series of novels. He is mentioned in the novelization of 2001: A Space Odyssey as a scientist who instructed the computer HAL 9000 in its basic functions (in the movie, it was a "Mr. Langley"). He is a main character in 2010: Odyssey Two as a member of the joint Russian-American expedition to Jupiter on boa... more

Doctor Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai (often abbreviated to Dr. Chandra) is a fictional character from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series of novels. He is mentioned in the novelization of 2001: A Space Odyssey as a scientist who instructed the computer HAL 9000 in its basic functions (in the movie, it was a "Mr. Langley"). He is a main character in 2010: Odyssey Two as a member of the joint Russian-American expedition to Jupiter on board the Soviet spacecraft Alexei Leonov. He is also briefly mentioned by an elderly Heywood Floyd in the novel 2061: Odyssey Three. In the movie version of 2010, Dr. Chandra was played by Bob Balaban. Chandra was a native of Kerala, a state of India. He was an instructor in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before becoming a member of the crew of the Alexei Leonov on its mission to Jupiter. His role was to reactivate the HAL 9000 computer so that the Discovery could return to Earth under his guidance. He is the... less