System naming: Difference between revisions
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stark_Draper Draper] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stark_Draper Draper] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Gill Gill] | |||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming Hamming] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming Hamming] | ||
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon Shannon] (sp?) | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon Shannon] (sp?) | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds Torvalds] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds Torvalds] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes Wilkes] | |||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson Wilson] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson Wilson] | ||
Revision as of 21:00, 27 September 2011
The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace (hostname) is "people involved in computing". However, pronunciation issues rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare.
Old names
Names used on systems no longer in use.
- Knuth
Current names
- Turing (Bitfolk VM) - CPU Traffic
- Babbage (Server in the space) - source
- Lovelace (Workstation - Makerbot) - source
- Flowers (Media PC) - source
- Postel The SGI O2 - source
- Bell The door/building management controller - source
- Marconi (Spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing)
- Hopper (The vending machine) - source
- Shannon (IRC Terminal)
- Laz0rs (Shuttle PC for laser cutter)
- Church (Router)
- Difference - Public Terminal
See Laboratory 24/Network for details on these machines.
Potential names
- Booch
- Boole
- Borg
- Colin
- Cray
- Denning
- Draper
- Gill
- Hamming
- Hopper
- Kohonen
- Lamarr or Hedy (sp?)
- Neumann
- Perlman
- Shannon (sp?)
- Torvalds
- Wilkes
- Wilson
Potential names on the edge of the scheme
- Adams - UUNET
- Armstrong - FM
- Asimov
- Backus - Naur Form
- Beer - Regulatory systems
- Black - Feedback amp
- Brown - Servomechanics
- Darwin
- Dirac - Quantum mechanics
- Edison - Electrical engineering
- Erwin - Userfriendly character
- Faraday
- Flood - Prisoner's dilemma, travelling salesman problem
- Gray - Music synth
- Heron - Automata
- Hollerith - Automated punch card systems, his company eventually became IBM
- Korolyov - Rocket science
- Marconi - Radio telegraph
- Markov
- Maxwell - Electromagnetic theory
- Moog
- Norton - Circuit analysis
- Pitts - Neural Networks
- Reeves - PCM
- Simon - AI
- Smith - RF analysis
- Stob - Satirist
- Tesla
- Watt - Steam Engine Bad-Ass
Potential names not from the scheme
- Bubbles, Buttercup & Blossom
- FuzzyWhif
- heck-a-tombical plus minus
- Micropig/Spiderpig
- NPR (No Prescription Required)
- Pong/Ping
- Cabbage - an alternative / backup / failover for Babbage?
