EECS hostnames

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The following is the list of potential hostnames that might be used for any new UNIX machines in the EECS department.

Machines are not required to use names from this list, but if one is not supplied before installation, one will be selected from here.

Selection of hostnames is important, see RFC 1178, xkcd cartoon.

Rules of thumb for choosing a hostname[edit]

  • It must be unique within the domains cecs.ucf.edu eecs.ucf.edu cs.ucf.edu ece.ucf.edu ; it would be nice if it were unique within *.ucf.edu
  • It should be easy to spell, type, and pronounce (or, at least, you as an engineer should be embarrassed if you have trouble doing so)
  • Don't name hosts after yourself unless it is your personal desktop and you never want a second one.
  • Don't name servers the same as your research project unless the server will be dedicated to the website and doing nothing else. Research project names should be used for websites, and the website might not always be on the same server.
  • Don't name servers after your research project if the server installation might outlive your project or if the project might need multiple servers.
  • This is a list of famous scientists within relevant fields. Feel free to pick from this list or use your own theme (or add your favorite scientists and engineers to this list).
  • Past themes used around UCF: local lakes, animals, beers, etc. Famous people seems like a list harder to exhaust.

See also Category:Hostnames

Sources for names[edit]

(Occasionally these are checked to add more.)

Unused potential hostnames[edit]

First pass, Computer Pioneers lightly weeded.

Adam Adriaan Aiken Alan Alexander Alonzo Amdahl Andrew Andries Andy Anthony Antonelli Atanasoff Babaian Babbage Baran Barr Barton Bauer Bechtolsheim Bell Bemer Bennett bentley Berners-Lee Berry Bertsekas Blaise Blanch Bledsoe Boole Borenstein Bosack Booth bradford Brian Bricklin Brinch Brooker Brudno Caldwell Calland Calvin Caminer Cerf Christopher Claude Clifford Clive Conny Corrado edgar Edmund Edward Einar Frances Frank Fred Frederic Fredrik Friedrich Geen Gene Georg George Gerard Gertrude Gordon Grigore Gustav Hans Hansen Heinz henrich Herbert hertz Howard Irma Ivan Jack James Jan Jean Justin Karen Kathleen Keith Ken Kevin Klaus Konrad Kristen LaFarr Laurence Lawrence Lee leon Leonard List Louis Makepeace Martin Marvin Mary Masatoshi Maurice Max McGregor Meyer Moisil Mooers Moore Nathaniel Naur Nelson Newman Niklaus Nobuo Noyce Nutt Nygaard Olsen Osborne Palm Parnas Paterson Patterson Paul Peck Peddle Perlman Peter Pike Pinkerton Poel Pomerene Postel Pouzin Prim Radia Rajchman raskin Ratliff Rattner Ritchie Roberts Robertson Rochester Rosenblatt Rosing Ross Rubinstein Salton Samelson Samson Samuel Scheutz Schickard Seymour Shannon Shima shockley Simon Sinclair Spence Spitters Sprck Stefferud stein Stibitz Strachey Stuart Sutherland Tauschek Teitelbaum Thacker Thomas Thompson Torvalds Tramiel Trong Truong Uncapher Vannevar Vincent Vint Viterbi Vleck Wanlass Warboys Warshall Warwick Watson Wayne Wheeler Wijngaarden Wilhelm Wilkes Willem Wirth Wolff Woods Woody Wozniak Wyman Yourdon Zemanek Zuse

people[edit]

Note: marked (*) names are already in use and might not be available.

Details are filled in lazily here...

computer science and electrical engineering[edit]

name year  claim to fame
Howard H. Aiken 1944 computer assisted numerical solutions, Mark I - IV early electro-mechanical computers
Gene Amdahl 1967 Amdahl's law; development of mainframe and parallel computers
Kathleen Antonelli 1942 one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC
John Vincent Atanasoff 1937 invented the first non-mechanical electronic computer, using binary math, vacuum tubes, and regenerative capacitive memory (similar to DRAM)
Charles Babbage 1812 inventor of the programmable mechanical computer (including the difference engine, etc.)
* John Backus 1959 invented the Backus–Naur Form for formally describing languages; lead the team that created Fortran
* Guglielmo Marconi 1909 inventor of radio
Hendrik Lorentz 1902 magnetism, radiation
Pieter Zeeman 1902 magnetism, radiation
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard 1905 cathode rays
Kathleen Booth 1947 Invented Assembly language
Karl Ferdinand Braun 1909 development of radio
Robert Andrews Millikan 1923 photoelectric effect
Heinrich Hertz 1886 electromagnetic waves, hertz antenna
John Bardeen 1956 invention of the transistor
Walter Houser Brattain 1956 invention of the transistor
William Bradford Shockley 1956 invention of the transistor
Ivar Giaever 1973 semiconductor tunneling
Brian David Josephson 1973 Josephson effect, superconductivity
Jack St. Clair Kilby 2000 invention of the integrated circuit (Nobel prize)
Willard S. Boyle 2009 invention of the CCD sensor (Nobel prize)
George E. Smith 2009 invention of the CCD sensor (Nobel prize)
Paul Baran 1959 pioneer in the development of computer networks
* Anthony James Barr 1966 programming language creator, founder of SAS systems
o Jean Bartik 1945 Developed the fundamentals of digital computer programming while working on ENIAC
Robert S. Barton 1961 Pioneer in computer architecture
Ken Batcher 1980 Pioneer in massively parallel systems and algorithms
Friedrich L. Bauer 1957 developer of ALGOL, early high level language
Andy Bechtolsheim 1982 co-founder of Sun Microsystems
o Gordon Bell 1960 developed PDP and VAX systems for DEC
Bob Bemer 1957 Developer of COMTRAN and committee member for COBOL, early high level langauges
John Makepeace Bennett 1947 work on early comptuers EDSAC, Ferranti Mark 1 and SILLIAC
* Peter J. Bentley 1997 evolutionary computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, artificial neural networks
o Edmund Berkeley 1947 cofounded ACM
Tim Berners-Lee 1989 Inventor of the world wide web
Sheldon F. Best 1950 One of the Fortran team developers
Clifford Berry 1939 First non-mechanical electronic computer]], using binary math, vacuum tubes, and regenerative capacitive memory
* Dimitri Bertsekas 1979 theoretical and algorithmic optimization and control, applied probability
? Donald Bitzer 1964 co-inventor of the plasma display, father of the PLATO computer assisted instruction system
Gertrude Blanch 1954 early computing pioneer, Mathematical tables project, ACM member, worked on numerical analysis, computation, LORAN, turbulence, air flow, transonic and supersonic flight
o Julius Blank 1957 one of 8 founders of Fairchild Semiconductor
Woody Bledsoe 1966 Mathematician,founder of AI, developed pattern recognition, automated theorem proving
David Boggs
Corrado Böhm
George Boole
Andrew Donald Booth
Nathaniel Borenstein
o Leonard Bosack 1984 cofounder of Cisco Systems
Boston Computer Society
Dan Bricklin
Per Brinch Hansen
Tony Brooker 1955 Developer of autocode, the first high level language
* Fred Brooks 1975 author of The Mythical Man Month
Alexander Brudno
Dudley Allen Buck
Fredrik Rosing Bull
Arthur Burks
Vannevar Bush
Samuel H. Caldwell
David Caminer
Rémy Card
Vint Cerf
Murali chemuturi
Peter Chen
Steve Chen
Noam Chomsky
o Leon Chua 1983 Cellular neural network theory, Chua's circuit
o Alonzo Church 1936 mathematician, logician; major contributions including lambda calculus, Church–Turing thesis
o Wesley A. Clark
Cyril Cleverdon
John Cocke
Edgar F. Codd
Computer Pioneer Award
Leslie Comrie
Lynn Conway
o Allen Coombs 1943 one of the primary developers of Colossus
Steven Anson Coons
Seymour Cray
Glen Culler
Christopher Curry
Ole-Johan Dahl 1960 Father (with with Kristen Nygaard) of Simula and Object oriented programming
Christopher J. Date
Donald Davies
Paul DeMaine
* Jack Dennis
Edsger W. Dijkstra
o Arnold Dumey 1956 hashing, cryptography
J. Presper Eckert 1946 co-inventor of the ENIAC
Alan Emtage
Douglas Engelbart
Gordon Eubanks
Bob O. Evans
Federico Faggin
Elizabeth J. Feinler
Charles Ranlett Flint
Tommy Flowers
Jay Wright Forrester 1960 Founder of System dynamics simulation
Thomas Fowler
James H. Frame
Stan Frankel
Edward Fredkin
Victor Glushkov
William Goddard 1970 co-inventor of the hard drive
Emanuel Goldberg
Richard Goldberg 1950 One of the Fortran team developers
Herman Goldstine
Saul Gorn
Lynn G. Gref
* Richard Grimsdale 1953 helped design the world's first transistorised computer
Victor Grinich
John Gustafson
Lois Haibt 1950 One of the Fortran team developers
Charles Leonard Hamblin
Margaret Hamilton
Vic Hayes
Harlan Herrick 1950 One of the Fortran team developers
Andy Hertzfeld
W. Daniel Hillis
* Geoffrey Hinton 1986 father of deep learning
Tony Hoare
Jean Hoerni
Herman Hollerith 1890 Inventor of the punch card tabulator
Betty Snyder Holberton 1946 One of the original 6 programmers of the ENIAC, helped develop the UNIVAC
o Grace Hopper 1943 Created the first compiler and the predecessors to cobol and fortran; first (1/3) programmer of electronic computers in the US
David A. Huffman
Cuthbert Hurd
Harry Huskey
Kenneth E. Iverson
Jean Paul Jacob
Steve Jobs 1976 Co-founder of Apple computer
Bill Joy 1982 co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Bob Kahn
Susan Kare
Richard M. Karp
Alan Kay
John George Kemeny
Brian Kernighan
Vinod Khosla 1982 co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Tom Kilburn
Jack Kilby
Gary Kildall
Peter T. Kirstein
Stephen Cole Kleene
Leonard Kleinrock
Donald Knuth 1970 author of TeX, The Art of Computer Programming.
Cornelis H. A. Koster
Alan Kotok
Daniel Kottke
Thomas Eugene Kurtz
Wes Kussmaul
Butler Lampson
Valerie Landau
Peter Landin
Tom Lane
John Lansdown
Jay Last 1957 one of 8 founders of Silicon Valley
Harold Lawson
Sergey Alexeyevich Lebedev
Li Huatian
J. C. R. Licklider
Ada Lovelace
Percy Ludgate
Herman Lukoff
* John Lynott 1970 co-inventor (with William Goddard) of the hard drive and air bearing HD head
John Mauchly 1946 co-inventor of the ENIAC
John McCarthy
Howard O. McMahon
Lee E. McMahon
Scott McNealy 1982 co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Barry J. Mailloux
Branimir Makanec
John Mauchly
Mark P. McCahill
Joel McCormack
Marlyn Meltzer
Bill Mensch
Robert Metcalfe
Daniel Meyer
Nobuo Mii
Jay Miner 1980 integrated circuit designer; father of the Amiga
Marvin Minsky 1963 First head mounted graphical display, early neural network research
Owen Mock
Grigore Moisil
Paul Montgomery
Calvin Mooers
Charles H. Moore
Gordon Moore
Anatoliy O. Morozov
Peter Naur
Robert Nelson 1950 One of the Fortran team developers
Ted Nelson
John von Neumann
Max Newman
? William Norris 1958 CEO of Control Data Corporation which sold magnetic drum memory, mainframes, etc.
Robert Noyce
Roy Nutt 1950 One of the Fortran team developers
Kristen Nygaard
Ken Olsen
Adam Osborne
* Paul Otlet 1892 Father of Information Science and Universal Decimal Classification
Conny Palm
* Seymour Papert 1967 pioneer in AI at the MIT AI Lab, creator of Logo programming language
David Parnas
Blaise Pascal 1642 early mechanical calculator, mathematician, physicist; fluid dynamics
Fabio Paternò
Tim Paterson
David Patterson
John E. L. Peck
Chuck Peddle
Radia Perlman
Rob Pike
John Pinkerton
Willem van der Poel
James H. Pomerene
Jon Postel 1969 helped create ARPAnet, developed many early internet protocols including TCP/IP, RFC editor
Louis Pouzin
Hal Prewitt
Robert C. Prim
Dave Raggett
Jan A. Rajchman
Bashir Rameyev
Jef Raskin 1974 human computer interface pioneer, contributor to the Macintosh computer
Wayne Ratliff
Justin Rattner
Joyce K. Reynolds
Louis Ridenour
o Dennis Ritchie
Ed Roberts
Lawrence Roberts
Stephen Robertson
Nathaniel Rochester
Frank Rosenblatt 1957 creator of Perceptron, an early AI machine
o Hugh McGregor Ross
Seymour I. Rubinstein
Gerard Salton
Klaus Samelson
Jean E. Sammet
Peter Samson
David Sayre 1950 One of the Fortran team developers
Per Georg Scheutz
Wilhelm Schickard
Helmut Schreyer
Oliver Selfridge
Claude Shannon
Peter Sheridan 1950 One of the Fortran team developers
Masatoshi Shima
Herbert Simon
Clive Sinclair
Karen Spärck Jones
Frances Spence
Laurence Spitters
Izrael Abraham Staffel
Einar Stefferud 1975 Internet pioneer; designed many core internet protocols still in use
Robert Stein
David Steward
George Stibitz
Christopher Strachey
John Bentley Stringer
Ivan Sutherland
Gustav Tauschek
Ruth Teitelbaum
Charles P. Thacker
Bernhard Thalheim
Charles Xavier Thomas
Ken Thompson
o Linus Torvalds
Jack Tramiel
André Truong Trong Thi
* Alan Turing
Dana Ulery
Keith Uncapher
Andries van Dam
John van Geen
Michael W. Vannier 1983 Published first 3d reconstruction of computed tomography (CT) slices of the human head
Andrew Viterbi
Tom Van Vleck
Michel Vulpe
An Wang
Frank Wanlass
Brian Warboys
Stephen Warshall
Kevin Warwick
Thomas J. Watson Jr. 1956 as CEO brought IBM into the electrical computer industry
David Wheeler
o Martin Wiberg 1875 Invented a machine that could print logarithmic tables and a pulse jet engine
Adriaan van Wijngaarden
Maurice Wilkes
Frederic Calland Williams
Niklaus Wirth
Stephen Wolff
Mary Lee Woods 1944 programmed Mark 1 series of computers
Steve Wozniak 1976 Co-founder of Apple computer
Irma Wyman
Robert Yannes
Edward Yourdon
Heinz Zemanek
Irving Ziller 1950 One of the Fortran team developers
Konrad Zuse

Key:

- previously used
* currently in use
+ soon to be in use

bioinformatics[edit]

name year claim to fame
+ Robin Coombs 1945 immunologist, co-inventor of the Coombs blood test
Arthur Mourant 1945 chemist, geneticist, co-inventor of the Coombs blood test
Rob Race 1945 medical doctor, human geneticist, and co-inventor of the Coombs blood test
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