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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria Heron] - Automata | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria Heron] - Automata | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Knoll Knoll] - Electron microscope | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Knoll Knoll] - Electron microscope | ||
* [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr Lamarr] - Actress, Glamour model and co-inventer of Frequency-hopping wireless communication ( | * [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr Lamarr] - Actress, Glamour model and co-inventer of Frequency-hopping wireless communication (awkward to spell, as is Hedy) | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi Marconi] - Radio telegraph | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi Marconi] - Radio telegraph | ||
* Moog | * Moog | ||
Revision as of 23:51, 25 May 2010
The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace 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)
Potential names
- Booch
- Boole
- Church
- Cray
- Denning
- Draper
- Flowers
- Hamming
- Hopper
- Kohonen
- Perlman
- Postel?
- Shannon
- Wilson
Potential names on the edge of the scheme
- Armstrong - FM
- Asimov
- Bell
- Beer - Regulatory systems
- Black - Feedback amp
- Brown - Servomechanics
- Edison
- Faraday
- Flood - Prisoner's dilemma, travelling salesman problem
- Gray - Music synth
- Heron - Automata
- Knoll - Electron microscope
- Lamarr - Actress, Glamour model and co-inventer of Frequency-hopping wireless communication (awkward to spell, as is Hedy)
- Marconi - Radio telegraph
- Moog
- Norton - Circuit analysis
- Pitts - Neural Networks
- Reeves - PCM
- Simon - AI
- Smith - RF analyusis
- Tesla
Potential names not from the scheme
- Pong/Ping
- Micropig/Spiderpig
- Bubbles, Buttercup & Blossom
