System naming

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) - source
• 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
• Kohonen
• Lamarr or Hedy (sp?)
• Neumann
• Perlman
• 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?