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SHODAN ( Sentient Hyper - Optimized Data Access Network ) is a fictional artificial intelligence and the main ___MASK62___ of the cyberpunk - horror themed action role - playing video games " System Shock " and " System Shock 2 ". Cyberpunk is a subgenre of ___MASK49___ fiction in a future setting that tends to focus on society as " high tech low life " featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements , such as information technology and cybernetics , juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order . IBM PC compatible computers are those similar to the original IBM PC , XT , and AT , able to run the same software and support the same expansion cards as those . Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones , or IBM clones . They duplicate almost exactly all the significant features of the PC ___MASK83___ , facilitated by IBM ' s choice of commodity hardware components and various manufacturers ' ability to reverse ___MASK35___ the BIOS firmware using a " clean room design " technique . Columbia Data Products built the first clone of the IBM personal computer by a clean room implementation of its BIOS . DOS , short for " disk operating system ", is an acronym used to describe the family of several very similar command - line ___MASK87___ operating systems for x86 - based computers : primarily MS - DOS and PC DOS , but also DR - DOS , FreeDOS , ROM - DOS , and PTS - DOS . None of these systems were officially named " DOS ", and indeed " DOS " is a ___MASK86___ term for disk operating system . Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States . The other four Great Lakes are shared by the U . S . and ___MASK3___ . It is the second - largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third - largest by surface area , after Lake Superior and Lake Huron ( and is slightly smaller than the U . S . state of West Virginia ). To the east , its basin is conjoined with that of Lake Huron through the wide Straits of Mackinac , giving it the same surface elevation as its easterly counterpart ; the two are technically a single lake . Lake Michigan is shared , from west to east , by the U . S . states of Wisconsin , Illinois , Indiana , and Michigan . Ports along its shores include , Chicago , Milwaukee , Green Bay , Wisconsin , Gary , Indiana , and Benton Harbor , Michigan . The word " Michigan " originally referred to the lake itself , and is believed to come from the Ojibwa word " mishigami " meaning " great water ". In the earliest European maps of the region , the name of Lake Illinois has been found in addition to that of " Michigan ". Warren Spector ( born October 2 , 1955 ) is an American role - playing and video ___MASK92___ ___MASK90___ , director , writer , producer and production ___MASK90___ . He is known for creating games which give players a wide variety of choices in how to progress . Consequences of those choices are then shown in the simulated ___MASK92___ world in subsequent levels or missions . He is best known for the critically acclaimed video ___MASK92___ " Deus Ex " that embodies the choice and consequence philosophy while combining elements of the first - person shooter , roleplaying , and adventure ___MASK92___ genres . Origin Systems , Inc . ( sometimes abbreviated as OSI ) was a ___MASK75___ based in Austin , Texas , which was active from 1983 to 2004 . It is most famous for the " Ultima " and " Wing Commander " series . System Shock is a 1994 first - person action role - playing video ___MASK92___ developed by Looking Glass Technologies and published by Origin Systems . It was directed by Doug Church with Warren Spector serving as producer . The ___MASK92___ is set aboard a space station in a cyberpunk vision of the year 2072 . Assuming the role of a nameless ___MASK63___ , the player attempts to hinder the plans of a malevolent artificial intelligence called SHODAN . A video ___MASK92___ is an electronic ___MASK92___ that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor . The word " video " in " video ___MASK92___ " traditionally referred to a raster display device , but as of the 2000s , it implies any type of display device that can produce two - or three - dimensional images . Some theorists categorize video games as an art form , but this designation is controversial . Looking Glass Studios was a ___MASK87___ ___MASK92___ development company during the 1990s . Their games demonstrated innovative gameplay , pioneering ___MASK10___ simulation , and well - written , engaging stories . Their best known ___MASK92___ franchises were " Ultima Underworld ", " System Shock " and " Thief 1 and 2 ". Northwestern University ( NU ) is a private ___MASK97___ university based in Evanston , Illinois , with campuses in Chicago , Illinois ; San Francisco , California ; and Doha , Qatar . Composed of twelve schools and colleges , Northwestern offers 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees . Artificial intelligence ( AI ) is intelligence exhibited by machines . In ___MASK87___ science , an ideal " intelligent " machine is a flexible rational agent that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal . Colloquially , the term " artificial intelligence " is applied when a machine mimics " cognitive " functions that humans associate with other human minds , such as " learning " and " problem solving ". As machines become increasingly capable , mental facilities once thought to require intelligence are removed from the definition . For example , optical character recognition is no longer perceived as an exemplar of " artificial intelligence ", having become a routine technology . Capabilities currently classified as AI include successfully understanding human speech , competing at a high level in strategic ___MASK92___ systems ( such as Chess and Go ), self - driving cars , and interpreting complex data . Some people also consider AI a danger to humanity if it progresses unabatedly . The graphical user interface ( GUI ), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation , instead of text - based user interfaces , typed command labels or text navigation . GUIs were introduced in reaction to the perceived steep learning curve of command - line interfaces ( CLIs ), which require commands to be typed on a ___MASK87___ keyboard . Evanston is a city in ___MASK57___ County , Illinois , United States , north of downtown Chicago , bordered by Chicago to the south , Skokie to the west , and Wilmette to the north , with a population of 74 , 486 . It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan and is the home of Northwestern University . The boundaries of the city of Evanston are coterminous with those of the former Evanston Township , which was dissolved in 2014 by voters with its functions being absorbed by the city of Evanston . Illinois is a state in the midwestern region of the United States , achieving statehood in 1818 . It is the 5th most populous state and 25th largest state in terms of land area , and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire country . The word " Illinois " comes from the Algonquin word for " tribe of superior men ". With Chicago in the northeast , small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois , and natural resources like coal , timber , and petroleum in the south , Illinois has a diverse economic base and is a ___MASK14___ transportation hub . The Port of Chicago connects the state to other global ports from the Great Lakes , via the ___MASK42___ Lawrence Seaway , to the Atlantic Ocean , as well as the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River , via the Illinois River . For decades , O ' Hare International Airport has been ranked as one of the world ' s busiest airports . Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics . Chicago ( or ), officially the City of Chicago , is the third - most populous city in the United States , and the fifth - most populous city in North America . With over 2 . 7 million residents , it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States , and the county seat of ___MASK57___ County . The Chicago metropolitan area , often referred to as Chicagoland , has nearly 10 million people and is the third - largest in the U . S . Doug Church ( born November 16 , 1968 in Evanston , Illinois ) , is an American video ___MASK92___ ___MASK90___ and producer . He attended MIT in the late 1980s , but left and went to work with Looking Glass Studios , when they were making primarily MS - DOS - based first - person adventure / shooter / roleplaying games , including Ultima Underworld , Ultima Underworld II , System Shock and Thief . Later , Church joined Eidos Interactive as technical director , lending programming and design expertise on a number of games from Ion Storm Inc . and Crystal Dynamics , including extensive design work on Tomb Raider : Legend . In 2005 , he left Eidos to join Electronic Arts . In 2003 , Church was given the International Game Developers Association ' s Community Contribution award , in part for his work as co - chair of the IGDA ' s educational committee developing relationships between the ___MASK92___ industry and academia . He has also participated in many of the Indie Game Jams , including developing `` Angry God Bowling , '' the prototypical ___MASK92___ for the first IGJ . From July 2005 to 2009 , Church worked at Electronic Arts ' Los Angeles office , as team leader on a project supervised by filmmaker Steven Spielberg . On March 16 , 2011 , Valve Corporation announced that Church had been hired for an undisclosed position and project . Microsoft Windows ( or simply Windows ) is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed , marketed , and sold by Microsoft . It consists of several families of operating systems , each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible ___MASK83___ . Active Windows families include Windows NT , Windows Embedded and Windows Phone ; these may encompass subfamilies , e . g . Windows Embedded Compact ( Windows CE ) or Windows Server . Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x ; Windows 10 Mobile is an active product , unrelated to the defunct family Windows Mobile . MS - DOS (; acronym for " Microsoft Disk Operating System ") is a discontinued operating system for x86 - based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft . It was the most commonly used ___MASK91___ of the DOS family of operating systems , and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s and the early 1990s , when it was gradually superseded by operating systems offering a graphical user interface ( GUI ), in various generations of the graphical Microsoft Windows operating system by Microsoft Corporation . A space station , also known as an orbital station or an orbital space station , is a spacecraft capable of supporting crewmembers , which is designed to remain in space ( most commonly as an artificial satellite in low Earth orbit ) for an extended period of time and for other spacecraft to dock . A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by lack of ___MASK14___ propulsion or landing systems . Instead , other vehicles transport people and cargo to and from the station . three space stations are in orbit : the International Space Station , which is permanently manned , China ' s Tiangong - 1 ( defunct ) and Tiangong - 2 ( launched 15 September 2016 , not permanently manned ). Previous stations include the Almaz and Salyut series , Skylab , and most recently " Mir ". An operating system ( OS ) is system software that manages ___MASK87___ hardware and software resources and provides common services for ___MASK87___ programs . All ___MASK87___ programs , excluding firmware , require an operating system to function . Microsoft Corporation ( commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS ) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond , Washington , that develops , manufactures , licenses , supports and sells ___MASK87___ software , consumer electronics and personal computers and services . Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems , Microsoft Office office suite , and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers . Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video ___MASK92___ consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup . As of 2016 , it was the world ' s largest software maker by revenue , and one of the world ' s most valuable companies .