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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann Neumann] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann Neumann] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine Nozick] (sp?) | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine Nozick] (sp?) | ||
| + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Peddle Peddle] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman Perlman] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman Perlman] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Sinclair Sinclair] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Sinclair Sinclair] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds Torvalds] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds Torvalds] | ||
| + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum Tanenbaum] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes Wilkes] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes Wilkes] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson Wilson] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson Wilson] | ||
Revision as of 14:48, 21 August 2012
The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace (hostname) is "people involved in computing" [1] [2]. This includes pioneers in similar relevant fields. Please note that pronunciation and spelling difficulties may rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare.
Old names
Names used on systems no longer in use.
Current names
- Turing (Bitfolk VM)
- Babbage (Server in the space)
- Lovelace (Workstation for Makerbot)
- Flowers (Media PC)
- Postel (The SGI O2)
- Bell (Door entry/building management)
- Marconi (Spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing) - source
- Hopper (Vending machine)
- Shannon (IRC Terminal)
- Layzor -- (Patel was formally the PC for laser cutter)
- Church (Router)
- Difference - Public Terminal
- Dennis - Random spare goodish pc.
See Laboratory 24/Network for details on these machines.
Potential names
- Booch
- Boole
- Borg
- Colin
- Cray
- Denning
- Draper
- Gill
- Hall
- Hamming
- Kohonen
- Lamarr or Hedy (sp?)
- Neumann
- Nozick (sp?)
- Peddle
- Perlman
- Sinclair
- Torvalds
- Tanenbaum
- Wilkes
- Wilson
- Joy
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?