The Computer's VoiceA deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male. Why is Star Treks computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? By examining how gender is built into these devices, author Liz W. Faber explores