System naming: Difference between revisions
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray Gray] - Music synth | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray Gray] - Music synth | ||
* [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/Sergey_Korolyov Korolyov] - Rocket Science | |||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi Marconi] - Radio telegraph | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi Marconi] - Radio telegraph | ||
* [http://www.mountainman.com.au/aether_2.html Maxwell] - Electromagnetic theory | * [http://www.mountainman.com.au/aether_2.html Maxwell] - Electromagnetic theory | ||
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Hagar_Smith Smith] - RF analysis | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Hagar_Smith Smith] - RF analysis | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla Tesla] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla Tesla] | ||
== Potential names not from the scheme == | == Potential names not from the scheme == | ||
Revision as of 00:22, 11 October 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) - source
- Lovelace (Workstation - Makerbot) - source
- Flowers (Media PC) - source
- Postel The SGI O2 - source
- Bell The door/building management controller - source
See Laboratory 24/Network for details on these machines.
Potential names
- Booch
- Boole
- Borg
- Church
- Colin
- Cray
- Denning
- Draper
- Hamming
- Hopper
- Kohonen
- Lamarr or Hedy (sp?)
- Perlman
- 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
- Korolyov - Rocket Science
- 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
