System naming

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?
• 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
• Knoll - Electron microscope
• Lamarr - Actress, Glamour model and co-inventer of Frequency-hopping wireless communication (nice, as is Hedy, but both awkward to spell)
• 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