Editing List of fictional computers (section)

==Literature==
===Before 1950===
* '''[[The Engine]]''', a kind of mechanical information generator featured in [[Jonathan Swift]]'s ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''. This is considered to be the first description of a fictional device that in any way resembles a computer.<ref>{{cite news |first=Eric A. |last=Weiss |title=Jonathan Swift's Computing Invention |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4640396 |quote=In 1726 Jonathan Swift published a description of a wonderful machine, made of equal parts of ... |work=[[IEEE]] |year=1985 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=164–165 |access-date=2010-01-26 |doi=10.1109/MAHC.1985.10017 }}</ref> (1726) 
* '''The Machine''' from [[E. M. Forster]]'s short story "[[The Machine Stops]]" (1909)
* '''The Brain''' from [[Lionel Britton]]’s ''Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth'' (1930).
* '''The Government Machine''' from [[Miles J. Breuer]]'s short story "Mechanocracy" (1932). 
* '''The Brain''' from [[Laurence Manning]]'s novel ''[[The Man Who Awoke]]'' (1933). 
* '''The Machine City''' from [[John W. Campbell]]'s short story "[[Twilight (Campbell short story)|Twilight]]" (1934).
* '''The Mechanical Brain''' from [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[Swords of Mars]]'' (1934).
* The ship's navigation computer in "[[Misfit (short story)|Misfit]]", a short story by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] (1939)
* '''The Games Machine''', a vastly powerful computer that plays a major role in [[A. E. van Vogt]]'s ''[[The World of Null-A]]'' (serialized in ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]'' in 1945)
* '''The Brain''', a supercomputer with a childish, human-like personality appearing in the short story "[[Escape!]]" by [[Isaac Asimov]] (1945)
* '''Joe''', a "logic" (that is to say, a personal computer) in [[Murray Leinster]]'s short story "[[A Logic Named Joe]]" (1946)

===1950s===
* '''The Machines''', positronic supercomputers that manage the world in Isaac Asimov's short story "[[The Evitable Conflict]]" (1950)
* '''MARAX''' (MAchina RAtiocinatriX), the spaceship ''Kosmokrator''{{'}}s AI in [[Stanisław Lem]]'s novel ''[[The Astronauts]]'' (1951)
* '''EPICAC''', in [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s ''[[Player Piano (novel)|Player Piano]]'' and other of his writings, EPICAC coordinates the United States economy. Named similarly to [[ENIAC]], its name also resembles that of '[[ipecac]]', a plant-based preparation that was used in over-the-counter poison-antidote [[Syrup of ipecac|syrups]] for its [[emetic]] (vomiting-inducing) properties. (1952)
* '''EMSIAC''', in [[Bernard Wolfe]]'s ''Limbo'', the war computer in World War III. (1952)
* Vast anonymous computing machinery possessed by the Overlords, an alien race who administer Earth while the human population merges with the Overmind. Described in [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s novel ''[[Childhood's End]]''. (1953)
* '''The Prime Radiant''', [[Hari Seldon]]'s desktop on [[Trantor]] in ''[[Second Foundation]]'' by [[Isaac Asimov]] (1953)
* '''Mark V''', a computer used by monks at a Tibetan lamasery to encode all the possible names of God which resulted in the end of the universe in [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s short story "[[The Nine Billion Names of God]]" (1953)
* '''Karl''', a computer (named for [[Carl von Clausewitz]]) built for analysis of military problems, in [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s short story "[[The Pacifist]]" (1956)
* '''Mima''', a thinking machine carrying the memories of all humanity, first appeared in [[Harry Martinson]]'s "Sången om Doris och Mima" (1953), later expanded into ''[[Aniara]]'' (1956)
* '''Gold''', a "supercalculator" formed by the networking of all the computing machines on 96&nbsp;billion planets, which answers the question "Is there a God?" with "Yes, ''now'' there is a God" in [[Fredric Brown]]'s single-page story "Answer" (1954)
* '''Bossy''', the "cybernetic brain" in the [[Hugo award]]-winning novel ''[[They'd Rather Be Right]]'' (a.k.a. ''The Forever Machine'') by [[Mark Clifton]] and [[Frank Riley (author)|Frank Riley]] (1954)
* '''The City Fathers''', emotionless computer bank educating and running the City of New York in [[James Blish]]'s ''[[Cities in Flight]]'' series. Their highest ethic was survival of the city and they could overrule humans in exceptional circumstances. (1955, sequels through 1962)
* '''[[Multivac]]''', a series of supercomputers featured in a number of stories by [[Isaac Asimov]] (1955–1983)
* '''The Central Computer''' of the city of Diaspar in [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s ''[[The City and the Stars]]'' (1956)
* '''Miniac''', the "small" computer in the book ''[[Danny Dunn]] and the Homework Machine'', written by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams (1958)
* '''Third Fleet-Army Force Brain''', a "mythical" thinking computer in the short story "Graveyard of Dreams", written by [[H. Beam Piper]] (evolved into the computer "Merlin" in later versions of the story) (1958)
* '''Microvac''', a future version of Multivac resembling a thick rod of metal the length of a spaceship appearing in ''[[The Last Question]]'', reputed to be one of Isaac Asimov's favorite stories. It appears in the book ''Nine Tomorrows'' (1959)
* '''Galactic AC''', a future version of Microvac and Multivac in Isaac Asimov's ''[[The Last Question]]'' (1959)
* '''Universal AC''', a future version of Galactic AC, Microvac, and Multivac in Isaac Asimov's ''[[The Last Question]]'' (1959)
* '''Cosmic AC''', a very distant future version of Universal AC, Galactic AC, Multivac in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short story ''[[The Last Question]]'' (The name is derived from "Automatic Computer"; see also AC's ancestor, [[Multivac]], and the contemporary [[UNIVAC]]) (1959)
* '''AC''', the ultimate computer at the end of time in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short story ''[[The Last Question]]'' (The name is derived from "Automatic Computer"; see also AC's ancestor, [[Multivac]], and the contemporary [[UNIVAC]]) (1959)

===1960s===
* '''Vulcan 2''' and '''Vulcan 3''', sentient supercomputers in [[Philip K. Dick]]'s novel ''[[Vulcan's Hammer]]'' (1960)
* '''Great Coordinator''' or '''Robot-Regent''', a partially to fully sentient extraterrestrial supercomputer, built to control and drive the scientifically and technologically advanced Great Arconide Empire as the Arconides have become decadent and unable to govern themselves. From the science fiction series ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' (1961)
* '''Merlin''' from the [[H. Beam Piper]] novel ''The Cosmic Computer'' (originally ''Junkyard Planet'') (1963)
* '''Simulacron-3''', the third generation of a virtual reality system originally depicted in the science fiction novel ''[[Simulacron-3]]'' (a.k.a. "Counterfeit World") by [[Daniel F. Galouye]] (1964) and later in film adaptations ''[[World on a Wire]]'' (1973) and ''[[The Thirteenth Floor]]'' (1999)
* '''GENiE''' (GEneralized Nonlinear Extrapolator), from the [[Keith Laumer]] novel ''[[The Great Time Machine Hoax]]'' (1964)
* '''Muddlehead''', the sapient computer that runs the trade ship ''Muddlin' Through'' in [[Poul Anderson]]'s stories "The Trouble Twisters" (1965), "Satan's World" (1969), "Day of Burning" (1967), "Lodestar" (1973), and "Mirkhiem"  (1977)
* '''Colossus''' and '''Guardian''': Colossus is a military supercomputer built by Dr. Charles Forbin to control the nuclear weapons of the United States of North America. Colossus initiates communication with an equivalent computer in the Soviet Union, called Guardian, and the two computers eventually merge to take control of the human race. Colossus and Guardian first appeared in the novel ''[[Colossus (novel)|Colossus]]'', by [[Dennis Feltham Jones]] (1966) and the subsequent film, ''[[Colossus: The Forbin Project]]'' (1970). Colossus also appears in two subsequent novels by Jones, ''[[The Fall of Colossus]]'' (1974), where the supercomputer is finally defeated by vengeful humans, and ''[[Colossus and the Crab]]''. (1977)
* '''Frost''', the protagonist computer in [[Roger Zelazny]]'s story "[[For a Breath I Tarry]]"; also '''SolCom''', '''DivCom''', and '''Beta''' (1966)
* '''Mike''' (a.k.a. Mycroft Holmes, Michelle, Adam Selene), in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]'' (named after [[Mycroft Holmes]], the brother of [[Sherlock Holmes]]) (1966)
* '''The Ox''' in [[Frank Herbert]]'s novel ''[[Destination: Void]]'' (1966)
* '''Supreme''', a computer filling the artificial world Primores in [[Lloyd Biggle, Jr.]]'s ''Watchers of the Dark'' (1966)
* '''WESCAC''' (WESt Campus Analog Computer), from [[John Barth]]'s ''[[Giles Goat-Boy]]'' (1966)
* '''The Brain''', the titular logistics computer of [[Len Deighton]]'s novel ''[[Billion-Dollar Brain]]'' (1966)
* '''Moxon''', a series of supercomputers that manage "the efficient society" in [[Tor Åge Bringsværd]]'s short story "Codemus" (1967)
* '''Little Brother''', a portable computer terminal similar in many ways to a modern [[smartphone]], also from Bringsværd's "Codemus" (1967)
* '''AM''' (Allied Mastercomputer), from [[Harlan Ellison]]'s short story "[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]" (1967)
* '''[[Berserker (Saberhagen)|The Berserkers]]''', autonomous machines that are programmed to destroy all life, as found in the stories of [[Fred Saberhagen]] (1967–2007)
* '''The Soft Weapon''', a sophisticated hand-held battle computer once used by a spy, in [[Larry Niven]]'s short story "[[The Soft Weapon]]" (1967)
* '''[[HAL 9000]]''', the sentient computer on board the spaceship ''[[Discovery One]]'', in [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s novel ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' (1968)
* '''Shalmaneser''', from [[John Brunner (novelist)|John Brunner]]'s ''[[Stand on Zanzibar]]'', a small (and possibly semi-sentient) supercomputer cooled in liquid helium (1968)
* '''Tänkande August''' (Swedish for "Thinking August"), a.k.a. "The Boss", a powerful computer for solving crime in the [[Agaton Sax]] books by Swedish author [[Nils-Olof Franzén]]
* '''The Thinker''', a non-sentient supercomputer which has absolute control over all aspects human life, including a pre-ordained death age of 21. From the novel ''[[Logan's Run]]'' by [[William F. Nolan]] and [[George Clayton Johnson]] (1967)
* '''Project 79''', from the novel ''[[The God Machine (1968 novel)|The God Machine]]'' by [[Martin Caidin]]. Set in the near future, the novel tells the story of Steve Rand, one of the brains behind Project 79, a top-secret US Government project dedicated to creating artificial intelligence. (1968)
* '''ARDNEH''' (Automatic Restoration Director – National Executive Headquarters), from the [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s  ''[[Empire of the East series]]'' (1968 onward)
* '''Fess''', an antique FCC-series computer that can be plugged into various bodies, in [[Christopher Stasheff]]'s ''[[The Warlock in Spite of Himself]]'' (1969)

===1970s===
* '''UniComp''', the central computer governing all life on Earth in ''[[This Perfect Day]]'' by [[Ira Levin]] (1970)
* '''T.E.N.C.H. 889B''', supercomputer aboard the ''Persus 9'' in ''[[A Maze of Death]]'' by [[Philip K. Dick]] (1970)
* '''Maxine''', from the [[Roger Zelazny]] story "My Lady of the Diodes" (1970)
* The '''Müller-Fokker computer tapes''', in ''[[The Muller-Fokker Effect]]'' by [[John Sladek]] (1970)
* '''HARLIE''' (Human Aanalog Replication, Lethetic Intelligence Engine), protagonist of ''[[When HARLIE Was One]]'' by [[David Gerrold]] (1972). Also in the later ''When Harlie Was One, Release 2.0'' (1988)
* '''TECT''', from [[George Alec Effinger]]'s various books. Note that there are several computers named TECT in his novels, even though they are unrelated stories. (1972-2002)
* '''Dora''', starship computer in ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] (1973)
* '''Minerva''', executive computer in ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] (1973)
* '''Pallas Athena''', Tertius planetary computer in ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] (1973)
* '''Proteus''', the highly intelligent computer in the novel ''[[Demon Seed (novel)|Demon Seed]]'' by [[Dean Koontz]] (1973)
* '''Extro''', in [[Alfred Bester (author)|Alfred Bester]]'s novel ''[[The Computer Connection]]'' (1975)
* '''FUCKUP''' (First Universal Cybernetic Kynetic Ultramicro-Programmer), from ''[[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'' by [[Robert Shea]] and [[Robert Anton Wilson]] (1975)
* '''Murray''' (Multi-Unit Reactive Reasoning and Analysis Yoke), from ''The Starcrossed'' by [[Ben Bova]] (1975)
* '''UNITRACK''', from ''[[The Manitou]]'' by [[Graham Masterton]]  (1976)
* '''Peerssa''', shipboard computer imprinted with the personality of a man of the same name, from ''[[A World Out of Time]]'' by [[Larry Niven]] (1976)
* '''P-1''', a rogue AI which struggles to survive from ''[[The Adolescence of P-1]]'' by Thomas J. Ryan (1977)
* '''Central Computer''', the benevolent computer in [[John Varley (author)|John Varley]]'s ''Eight Worlds'' novels and short stories (1977 to 1998)
* '''Domino''', the portable communicator – and associated underground mega-computer – used by Laurent Michaelmas to run the world in [[Algis Budrys]]'s novel ''[[Michaelmas (novel)|Michaelmas]]'' (1977)
<!--* '''IMP''', in [[Joseph McElroy]]'s ''[[Plus (novel)|Plus]]'' (1976) IMP is not a computer, but some sort of space station, controlled by a human brain, known as Imp Plus, removed from a dying scientist: commented out in case this qualifies-->
* '''Obie''', an artificial intelligence with the ability to alter local regions of reality, in [[Jack L. Chalker]]'s ''[[Well World]]'' series (1977)
* '''Well World''', the central computer responsible for "simulating" an entire new universe superimposed over the old Markovian one in [[Jack L. Chalker]]'s ''[[Well World]]'' series (1977)
* '''Sigfrid von Shrink''', '''Albert Einstein''', and '''Polymat''', self-aware computer systems in [[Frederik Pohl]]'s ''[[Gateway (novel)|Gateway]]'' series, (starting in 1977)
* '''TOTAL''', the vast military network in ''[[Up the Walls of the World]]'' by [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] (1978)
* '''ZORAC''', the shipboard computer aboard the ancient spacecraft in ''The Gentle Giants of Ganymede'' and the related series by [[James P. Hogan (writer)|James P. Hogan]] (1978). Also in the same series is '''VISAR''' (the network that manages the daily affairs of the Giants) as well as '''JEVEX''', the main computer performing the same function for the offshoot human colony.
* '''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''', the eponymous portable electronic travel guide/encyclopedia featured in [[Douglas Adams]]' sci-fi comedy series. It anticipates several later real-world technologies such as [[e-books]] and [[Wikipedia]].
* '''[[List of minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Deep Thought|Deep Thought]]''', the supercomputer charged with finding the answer to "the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" in the science fiction comedy series ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' by Douglas Adams.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Deep Thought - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |url=https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/d/186014 |access-date=2019-12-16 |website=sites.google.com}}</ref>
* '''Earth''' and '''Earth 2.0''', a planet-sized supercomputer designed by Deep Thought in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' by Douglas Adams. Earth's task was to find what is the "Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything." Earth 2.0 was created to replace the original Earth after it was destroyed by the Vogons.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Earth - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |url=https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/e/430261 |access-date=2019-12-16 |website=sites.google.com}}</ref>
* '''[[List of minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Eddie|Eddie]]''', the shipboard computer on the starship ''Heart of Gold'', also in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''
* '''Spartacus''', an AI deliberately designed to test the possibility of provoking hostile behavior towards humans, from [[James P. Hogan (writer)|James P. Hogan's]] book ''The Two Faces of Tomorrow'' (1979)
*'''SUM''', the computer in ''[[Goat Song]]'' published February, 1972 by [[Poul Anderson]] in ''[[Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction]]''
* '''Zen''', The main computer aboard Liberator in ''[[Blake's 7]]''.
* '''Slave''', Slave was built and programmed by Dorian and is the master computer of Dorian's ship, Scorpio in ''[[Blake's 7]]''.
* '''Orac''', Orac is a portable super-computer capable of reading any other computer's data and built by an inventor named Ensor in ''[[Blake's 7]]''.

===1980s===
* '''[[AIVAS]]''' (Artificial Intelligence Voice Address System), from [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]'' books (1980s to present)
* '''''[[Golem XIV]]''''', from [[Stanisław Lem]]'s novel of the same name (1981)
* '''TECT''' (originally '''TECT in the name of the Representative'''), the world-ruling computer in [[George Alec Effinger]]'s novel ''The Wolves of Memory'' (1981)
* '''VALIS''' (Vast Active Living Intelligence System), an alien orbital satellite around a Nixon-era earth, from the [[Philip K. Dick]] novel ''[[VALIS]]''. Only two novels out of an intended three-book trilogy were ever completed by the author (1981) 
* '''[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Hactar|Hactar]]''', the computer that designed the cricket-ball-shaped doomsday bomb (that would destroy the universe) for the people of Krikkit, in [[Douglas Adams]]'s ''[[Life, the Universe and Everything]]'' (1982){{Citation needed|date=October 2019}}
* '''Shirka''', the ''Odyssey''{{'}}s main computer in ''[[Ulysses 31]]'' (1981–1982)
* '''SAL 9000''', the counterpart of [[HAL 9000]] in ''[[2010: Odyssey Two]]'' (1982)
* '''Kendy''', the AI autopilot on board the seeder-ramship ''Discipline'' in the novels ''[[The Integral Trees]]'' and ''[[The Smoke Ring (novel)|The Smoke Ring]]'' by [[Larry Niven]] (Originally 1983)
* '''BC''' (Big Computer) which is also possibly God, in [[John Varley (author)|John Varley]]'s ''[[Millennium (novel)|Millennium]]'' novel (1983)
* '''(unnamed intelligence)''', in [[John Varley (author)|John Varley]]'s "[[Press Enter]] _", an intelligence that has evolved on NSA's computer network
* '''Apple Eve''', a fictional [[Apple, Inc.]], [[wordprocessing]]-oriented computer system in ''[[Warday]]'' (1984).<ref>{{cite book|title=Warday|first1=Whitley|last1=Strieber|first2=James|last2=Kunetka|page=430|year=1984}}</ref>
* '''Cyclops''' and '''Millichrome''', sentient computers built just before a series of disasters destroyed the American government and society in ''[[The Postman]]'' by [[David Brin]] (1984)
* '''Loki 7281''', from [[Roger Zelazny]]'s short story by the same name, in which a home computer wants to take over the world (1984)
* '''Neuromancer''' and '''Wintermute''', from [[William Gibson]]'s novel ''[[Neuromancer]]'' (1984)
* '''Valentina''', the artificial intelligence in the novel ''Valentina: Soul in Sapphire'' by Joseph H. Delaney and Marc Stiegler (1984)
* '''Teletraan I''', intelligent starship computer inside the Autobots' Ark spaceship that awakens the robot, from [[The Transformers (TV series)|Transformers]] animated television series, (1984)
* ''' Edgar''', from [[Steve Barron]]'s film ''[[Electric Dreams (film)|Electric Dreams]]'' (1984)
* '''[[Merlin (The Chronicles of Amber)#Ghostwheel|Ghostwheel]]''', built by Merlin in [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Amber]]''. A computer with esoteric environmental requirements, designed to apply data-processing techniques to alternate realities called "Shadows" (1985)
* '''Mandarax''' and '''Gokubi''', from [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s novel ''[[Galápagos (novel)|Galápagos]]'' (1985)
* '''Tokugawa''', from ''Cybernetic Samurai'' by [[Victor Milán]] (1985)
* '''The City of Mind''', from [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s ''[[Always Coming Home]]''
* '''Com Pewter''', a character from [[Piers Anthony]]'s [[Xanth|Xanth series]]. First appearing in ''[[Golem in the Gears]]'' (1986 onward), it is a machine which can alter its local reality.
* '''[[Jane (Ender's Game)|Jane]]''', from [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''[[Ender's Game (series)|Ender's Game]]'' series, Ender's companion. She lives in the philotic network of the ansibles. (1986)
* '''Master System''', in [[Jack L. Chalker]]'s ''The Rings of the Master'' series (1986–1988)
* '''Fine Till You Came Along''' and other ship, hub and planetary '''[[Mind (The Culture)|Minds]]''', in [[Iain M. Banks]]' ''[[The Culture|Culture]]'' novels and stories (1987–2000)
* '''The Quark II''', in [[Douglas Adams]]'s ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'' (1987)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency|last=Adams|first=Douglas|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=1987|isbn=978-1-4767-8299-7|location=New York|pages=85}}</ref>
* '''Abulafia''', Jacopo Belbo's computer in the novel ''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]'' by [[Umberto Eco]] (1988)
* '''Arius''', from [[William T Quick]]'s novels ''Dreams of Flesh and Sand'', ''Dreams of Gods and Men'', and ''Singularities'' (1988 onward)
* '''Continuity''', from [[William Gibson]]'s novel ''[[Mona Lisa Overdrive]]'' (1988)
* '''GWB-666''', the "Great Western Beast" of [[Robert Anton Wilson]]'s ''[[Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy]]'' (1988)
* '''Lord Margaret Lynn''', or "Maggie", the AI extrapolative computer on Tocohl Susumo's trader ship in the novel ''Hellspark'', by [[Janet Kagan]] (1988)
* '''The TechnoCore''', a band of AIs striving for the "Ultimate Intelligence", in [[Dan Simmons]]' novel ''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]'' (1989)
* '''Eagle''', from [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s ''[[Rendezvous with Rama|Rama]]'' series (1989)
* '''LEVIN''' (Low Energy Variable Input Nanocomputer), from [[William Thomas Quick]]'s novels ''Dreams of Gods and Men'', and ''Singularities'' (1989)

===1990s===
* '''Thing''', a very small box shaped computer owned by the Nomes, from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[The Nome Trilogy]]'' (1990)
* '''Grand Napoleon''', a [[Charles Babbage]]-style mechanical supercomputer from the [[alternate history (fiction)|alternate history]] novel ''[[The Difference Engine]]'' by [[William Gibson]] and [[Bruce Sterling]] (1990)
* '''Yggdrasil''', a vastly intelligent AI which effectively runs the world, including many virtual environments and subordinate AIs, in [[Kim Newman]]'s ''The Night Mayor'' (1990)
* '''Jill''', a computer reaching self-awareness in [[Greg Bear]]'s [[Queen of Angels (novel)|''Queen of Angels'' and ''Slant'']] novels (1990 and 1997)
* '''Aleph''', the computer which not only operates a space station but also houses the personality of a human character whose body became malfunction, from the [[Tom Maddox]] novel ''Halo'' (1991)
* '''Art Fish''', a.k.a. Dr. Fish, later fused with a human to become Markt, from [[Pat Cadigan]]'s novel ''Synners'' (1991)
* '''[[Blaine the Mono]]''', from [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower (series)|The Dark Tower]]'', a control system for the City of Lud and monorail service; also '''Little Blaine''' and '''Patricia''' (1991)
* '''Center''', from [[S. M. Stirling]] and [[David Drake]]'s [[The General series]], an AI tasked to indirectly unite planet Bellevue and restore its civilization, with the eventual goal of restoration of FTL travel and of civilization to the collapsed interplanetary federation; also '''Sector Command and Control Unit AZ12-b14-c000 Mk. XIV''' and '''Center''' (1991)
*'''Dahak''', from [[Mutineers' Moon|David Weber's Mutineer's Moon]] and its sequels, later republished inomnibus format [[Empire from the Ashes]].
* '''The Oversoul''', a supercomputer and satellite network from [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''[[Homecoming Saga]]'', first introduced in ''[[The Memory of Earth]]'' (1992)
* '''FLORANCE''', spontaneously generated AI from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' ''[[Virgin New Adventures]]'' (1992)
* '''David''' and '''Jonathon''', from [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s ''[[The Hammer of God (Clarke novel)|The Hammer of God]]'' (1993)
* '''Central Operating System''', a building management system AI that kills two people who threaten its existence in ''[[Ghost in the Machine (The X-Files)|Ghost in the Machine]]'', an episode of '''''[[The X-Files]]''''' (1993)
* '''[[Hex (Discworld)|Hex]]''', from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' (1994)
* '''Prime Intellect''', the computer controlling the universe in the Internet novel ''[[The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect]]'' by Roger Williams (1994)
* '''FIDO''' (Foreign Intruder Defense Organism), a semi-organic droid defensive system first mentioned in ''[[Champions of the Force]]'', a ''[[Star Wars]]'' novel by [[Kevin J. Anderson]] (1994)
* '''Abraham''', from [[Philip Kerr]]'s novel ''[[Gridiron (novel)|Gridiron]]'', is a superintelligent program designed to operate a large office building. Abraham is capable of improving his own code, and eventually kills humans and creates his own replacement "Isaac" (1995)
* '''Helen''', sentient AI from [[Richard Powers]]' ''[[Galatea 2.2]]'' (1995)
* '''Illustrated primer''', a book-like computer found at [[Neal Stephenson]]'s novel ''[[The Diamond Age]]'', which was first designed to aid a rich girl on her education, but gets lost, and instructs a poor Chinese girl named Nell. It has no proprietary AI inside, but learns about the user's circumstance, adapts, and creates characters that act accordingly with the user's surroundings. (1995)
* '''Ozymandias''', a recurring artificial intelligence in [[Deathstalker (series)|''Deathstalker'' and its sequels]], by [[Simon R. Green]] (1995)
* '''Ordinator''', the name used for any computer in the parallel universe occupied by Lyra in the novel ''[[Northern Lights (Pullman novel)|Northern Lights]]'' by [[Philip Pullman]] (1995)
* '''Teleputer''', the replacement for television and computers that has on demand video via dial up internet from [[David Foster Wallace]]'s ''[[Infinite Jest]]'' (1996)
* '''GRUMPY/SLEEPY''', psychic AI in the ''Doctor Who'' New Adventures novel ''[[Sleepy (novel)|Sleepy]]'' by [[Kate Orman]] (1996)
* '''The Librarian''' from the novel [[Snow Crash]] by Neal Stephenson
* '''Rei Toei''', an artificial singer from [[William Gibson]]'s novels ''[[Idoru]]'' and ''[[All Tomorrow's Parties (novel)|All Tomorrow's Parties]]'' (1996)
* '''Titania''', a female computer providing the personality to the ''Starship Titanic'' from the [[Terry Jones]] novel ''[[Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel]]'' (1997).
* '''DOCTOR''', AI designed to duplicate the [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|Doctor]]'s reactions in the ''Doctor Who'' ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' novel ''[[Seeing I]]'' by [[Kate Orman]] and [[Jonathan Blum (writer, born 1972)|Jon Blum]], eventually became an explorer with FLORANCE as its "companion" (1998)
* '''TRANSLTR''', NSA supercomputer from [[Dan Brown]]'s ''[[Digital Fortress]]'' (1998)
* '''ENIGMA''', short for Engine for the Neutralising of Information by the Generation of Miasmic Alphabets, an advanced cryptographic machine created by Leonard of Quirm, ''[[Discworld]]'' (1999) (compare with the actual [[Enigma machine]])
* '''Luminous''', from [[Greg Egan]]'s eponymous [[Luminous (short story)|short story]], is a computer that uses a diffraction grating created by lasers to diffract electrons and make calculations (1999)

===2000s===
* '''Stormbreaker''', a learning device containing a deadly virus from the [[Stormbreaker|book of the same name]] from [[Anthony Horowitz]]'s ''[[Alex Rider]]'' series (2001)
* '''Gabriel''', an AI computer developed by Miyuki Nakano at [[University of the Ryukyus|Ryukyu University]] in [[James Rollins]]'s novel, ''[[Deep Fathom]]'' (2001)
* '''Antrax''', a powerful supercomputer built by ancient humans in the novel ''[[Antrax]]'' by [[Terry Brooks]] (2001)
* '''[[Omnius]]''', the sentient computer overmind and ruler of the synchronized worlds in the ''[[Legends of Dune]]'' series, first appeared in ''[[Dune: The Butlerian Jihad]]'' by [[Brian Herbert]] and [[Kevin J. Anderson]] (2002)
* '''Turing Hopper''', the artificial intelligence personality (AIP) turned cybersleuth in ''You've Got Murder'' and subsequent books of the mystery series by [[Donna Andrews (author)|Donna Andrews]] (2002)
* '''C Cube''', a small box-like super computer that can perform virtually any task, from playing a cassette to hacking through high level security measures. It was created by 12-year-old criminal mastermind [[Artemis Fowl II]] in the third book of the ''[[Artemis Fowl (series)|Artemis Fowl]]'' series, ''[[Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code]]'' (2003)
* The '''Logic Mill''', a fictional early–18th century computer designed by [[Gottfried Leibniz]] and partially implemented by main character Daniel Waterhouse in the historical fiction series ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'' by [[Neal Stephenson]] (2004)<ref>{{cite web |title= Book Review: Birth of a System: The Baroque Cycle, by Neal Stephenson |work= The Harvard Law Record |last= Carbone |first= Marco |url= http://hlrecord.org/2004/12/book-review-birth-of-a-system-the-baroque-cycle-by-neal-stephenson/ |date= 2004-12-10 |access-date= 2017-02-21 }}</ref>
* '''Cohen''', a 400-year-old AI which manifests itself by 'shunting' through people. It is featured in the novels ''Spin State'' and ''Spin Control'' by [[Chris Moriarty]] (2005)
*'''Sentient Intelligence''', the SI (Sentient Intelligence) in [[Peter F. Hamilton]]'s ''[[Commonwealth Saga]]'' (2005)
* '''Deep Winter''' and '''Endless Summer''', the AIs in charge of the secret Human planet of Onyx. Endless Summer comes into service after Deep Winter died/expired in ''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'' (2006)
* '''The Daemon''', a distributed, persistent computer application created to change the world order in [[Daniel Suarez (author)|Daniel Suarez]]'s [[Daemon (novel)|Daemon]] (2006) and [[Freedom™]] (2010)
* '''Glooper''', an economic device resembling the [[MONIAC]] computer, from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Making Money]]'' of the ''[[Discworld]]'' series (2007)
* '''Sif''', the controller AI for transportation to and from the huge agricultural colony on the planet "Harvest" in ''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]'' by [[Joseph Staten]] (2007)
* '''Mack''' and '''Loki''', a coexisting pair of artificial intelligences in ''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''. The former manages the agricultural machinery on Harvest, while the latter is a secret United Nations Space Corps Office of Naval Intelligence AI. Only one member of the pair can be active at a time. (2007)
* '''Hendrix''', the hotel AI in [[Richard K. Morgan]]'s ''[[Altered Carbon]]''. (2002)
* '''SCP-079''', an artificial intelligence built on an [[Exidy Sorcerer]] that was abandoned by its creator and rediscovered by the [[SCP Foundation]]. It has [[retrograde amnesia|limited memory]] due to its outdated technology, prioritizing and retaining select knowledge and its desire to be free. (2008)

===2010s===
* '''Todd''', a computer that grows exponentially until it is indistinguishable from God in ''Mind War: The Singularity''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mindwarthesingularity.com|title=Mind War; The Singularity|website=www.mindwarthesingularity.com|access-date=12 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714095626/http://www.mindwarthesingularity.com/|archive-date=14 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> by Joseph DiBella (2010)
* '''SIG''', a secretive and manipulative computer that is developed on present-day Earth in the ''Darkmatter''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/11211|title=Smashwords – Darkmatter – a book by Scott James Thomas|website=www.smashwords.com|access-date=12 May 2021}}</ref> trilogy by Scott Thomas (2010)
* '''Archos''', a human-created computer in the novel "[[Robopocalypse]]" which becomes self-aware and infects all computer controlled devices on Earth in order to eradicate humankind (2011)
* '''ELOPe''', a sentient artificial intelligence built by the world's largest Internet company in ''Avogadro Corp'' (2011) and ''A.I. Apocalypse'' (2012) by [[William Hertling]]
* '''Lobsang''', an AI who claims to be the [[reincarnation]] of a [[Tibet]]an bicycle repair man in ''[[The Long Earth]]'' by [[Terry Pratchett]] and [[Stephen Baxter (author)|Steven Baxter]] (2012)
* '''The Red''', a rogue cloud based AI that uses Linked Combat Squad members to further its global agenda in [[Linda Nagata]]'s ''The Red'' trilogy
* '''Dragon''', a sentient artificial intelligence in [[Worm (web serial)|Worm]] that is both a better person than most humans and has restrictions intended to make going rogue flat impossible. Said restrictions mostly frustrate her ability to help. Only a handful of individuals know she is an AI.
* '''The Thunderhead''', from the ''Arc of a Scythe'' series by [[Neal Shusterman]], a post-singularity AI tasked with running the planet.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arc of a Scythe Series by Neal Shusterman|url=https://www.goodreads.com/series/188984-arc-of-a-scythe|access-date=2021-01-15|website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref> It is a secondary character in the [[Scythe (novel)|first novel]] and becomes a central character in the later novels.
* '''Skippy''', the "absent-minded" AI from the [[Craig Alanson#Expeditionary Force (ExForce)|Expeditionary Force (ExForce)]] series by Craig Alanson
* '''Limòn''' from [[Brockmire]] (2017)
* '''AIDAN''' (Artificial Intelligence Defense Analytics Network), the mentally unstable AI system on board the Alexander from [[Illuminae]] (2015)