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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuvo_Kohonen Kohonen] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuvo_Kohonen Kohonen] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman Perlman] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman Perlman] | ||
| − | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel Postel] (awkward to | + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel Postel] (awkward to spell?) |
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon Shannon] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon Shannon] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson Wilson] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson Wilson] | ||
Revision as of 23:54, 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 (awkward to spell?)
- 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
- 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