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The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science "people involved in computing"]. However, pronunciation issues rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare. | The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace (hostname) is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science "people involved in computing"]. However, pronunciation issues rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare. | ||
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* [[Lovelace]] (Workstation - [[Makerbot]]) | * [[Lovelace]] (Workstation - [[Makerbot]]) | ||
* [[Flowers]] (Media PC and [[Door control system]]) | * [[Flowers]] (Media PC and [[Door control system]]) | ||
* [[Postel]] The SGI O2 | |||
== Potential names == | == Potential names == | ||
Revision as of 19:14, 24 August 2010
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)
- Babbage (Server in the space)
- Lovelace (Workstation - Makerbot)
- Flowers (Media PC and Door control system)
- Postel The SGI O2
Potential names
- Booch
- Boole
- Borg
- Church
- Cray
- Denning
- Draper
- Hamming
- Hopper
- Kohonen
- Lamarr or Hedy (sp?)
- Perlman
- Postel (sp?)
- Shannon (sp?)
- Wilson
Potential names on the edge of the scheme
- Armstrong - FM
- Asimov
- Bell
- Beer - Regulatory systems
- Black - Feedback amp
- Brown - Servomechanics
- Dirac - Quantum mechanics
- Edison - Electrical engineering
- Erwin - Userfriendly character
- Faraday
- Flood - Prisoner's dilemma, travelling salesman problem
- Gray - Music synth
- Heron - Automata
- Marconi - Radio telegraph
- Maxwell - Electromagnetic theory
- Moog
- Norton - Circuit analysis
- Pitts - Neural Networks
- Reeves - PCM
- Simon - AI
- Smith - RF analysis
- Tesla
Potential names not from the scheme
- Pong/Ping
- Micropig/Spiderpig
- Bubbles, Buttercup & Blossom
