No, they denied it.  See here: 
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/index.html#slot7

Jon



<snip>

I don't know if it was a dig, but Arthur C. Clark and Stanley Kubrek did
admit HAL was based on IBM's name.

</snip>

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