Difference between revisions of "System naming"

Revision as of 13:27, 3 December 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) - 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
Laz0rs (Shuttle PC for laser cutter)

See Laboratory 24/Network for details on these machines.

Potential names

Potential names on the edge of the scheme

Armstrong - FM
Asimov
Backus - Naur Form
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
Hollerith - Automated punch card systems, his company eventually became IBM
Korolyov - Rocket Science
Marconi - Radio telegraph
Markov
Maxwell - Electromagnetic theory
Moog
Neumann
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
heck-a-tombical plus minus

@@ Line 54: / Line 54: @@
 * [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/Hollerith Hollerith] - Automated punch card systems, his company eventually became IBM
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Korolyov Korolyov] - Rocket Science
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi Marconi] - Radio telegraph