System naming

The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace (hostname) is "people involved in computing" [1] [2]. However, pronunciation and spelling difficulties 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
• 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?