name my laptop

Mar 15, 2010 13:21

so i stimulated the economy with my tax refund and bought a new laptop. this presents me with two difficult questions, one of which i need your help with:

Poll Name my machine

My naming scheme is scientists and/or people involved in the computing industry. Previously used names have included maxwell (Maxwell's equations), fourier (the Fourier Transform), newton, gauss (number theory, statistics), patterson (wrote the standard Computer Architecture textbook), heisenberg (quantum mechanics)...

Charles Babbage was the inventor of the first mechanical computer; Herb Simon was a CMU professor who worked in, amongst other fields, cognitive science and artificial intelligence; Alan Turing, well, was Alan Turing; Randy Pausch was the recently-deceased CMU professor who became famous for his Last Lecture.

ask dr. lj, geekery

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