diff --git a/namesgenerator/names-generator.go b/namesgenerator/names-generator.go index fbb9908..438c18b 100644 --- a/namesgenerator/names-generator.go +++ b/namesgenerator/names-generator.go @@ -68,10 +68,14 @@ var ( } // Docker, starting from 0.7.x, generates names from notable scientists and hackers. + // Please, for any amazing man that you add to the list, consider adding an equally amazing woman to it, and vice versa. right = [...]string{ // Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī was a founding father of astronomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%E1%B8%A5ammad_ibn_J%C4%81bir_al-%E1%B8%A4arr%C4%81n%C4%AB_al-Batt%C4%81n%C4%AB "albattani", + // Frances E. Allen, became the first female IBM Fellow in 1989. In 2006, she became the first female recipient of the ACM's Turing Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_E._Allen + "allen", + // June Almeida - Scottish virologist who took the first pictures of the rubella virus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Almeida "almeida", @@ -81,6 +85,9 @@ var ( // Maria Ardinghelli - Italian translator, mathematician and physicist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ardinghelli "ardinghelli", + // Wanda Austin - Wanda Austin is the President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, a leading architect for the US security space programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Austin + "austin", + // Aryabhata - Ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer during 476-550 CE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryabhata "aryabhata", @@ -116,9 +123,18 @@ var ( // Niels Bohr is the father of quantum theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr. "bohr", + // Kathleen Booth, she's credited with writing the first assembly language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth + "booth", + + // Anita Borg - Anita Borg was the founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg + "borg", + // Satyendra Nath Bose - He provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose "bose", + // Evelyn Boyd Granville - She was one of the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics; she earned it in 1949 from Yale University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Boyd_Granville + "boyd", + // Brahmagupta - Ancient Indian mathematician during 598-670 CE who gave rules to compute with zero - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta#Zero "brahmagupta", @@ -149,6 +165,12 @@ var ( // Leonardo Da Vinci invented too many things to list here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci. "davinci", + // Donna Dubinsky - played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs) serving as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Dubinsky + "dubinsky", + + // Annie Easley - She was a leading member of the team which developed software for the Centaur rocket stage and one of the first African-Americans in her field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Easley + "easley", + // Albert Einstein invented the general theory of relativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein "einstein", @@ -176,12 +198,18 @@ var ( // Galileo was a founding father of modern astronomy, and faced politics and obscurantism to establish scientific truth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei "galileo", + // Adele Goldberg, was one of the designers and developers of the Smalltalk language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_(computer_scientist) + "goldberg", + // Adele Goldstine, born Adele Katz, wrote the complete technical description for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldstine "goldstine", // Jane Goodall - British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist who is considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall "goodall", + // Margaret Hamilton - Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist) + "hamilton", + // Stephen Hawking pioneered the field of cosmology by combining general relativity and quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking "hawking", @@ -197,12 +225,26 @@ var ( // Grace Hopper developed the first compiler for a computer programming language and is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper "hopper", + // Frances Hugle, she was an American scientist, engineer, and inventor who contributed to the understanding of semiconductors, integrated circuitry, and the unique electrical principles of microscopic materials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hugle + "hugle", + // Hypatia - Greek Alexandrine Neoplatonist philosopher in Egypt who was one of the earliest mothers of mathematics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia "hypatia", // Yeong-Sil Jang was a Korean scientist and astronomer during the Joseon Dynasty; he invented the first metal printing press and water gauge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Yeong-sil "jang", + // Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Frances Spence, Kay McNulty, Marlyn Wescoff, and Ruth Lichterman were the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC + "jennings", // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik + "snyder", // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton + "spence", // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Spence + "mcnulty", // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli + "wescoff", // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlyn_Meltzer + "lichterman", // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Teitelbaum + + // Mary Lou Jepsen, was the founder and chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and the founder of Pixel Qi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Jepsen + "jepsen", + // Karen Spärck Jones came up with the concept of inverse document frequency, which is used in most search engines today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones "jones", @@ -215,6 +257,12 @@ var ( // A. P. J. Abdul Kalam - is an Indian scientist aka Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam "kalam", + // Susan Kare, created the icons and many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh in the 1980s, and was an original employee of NeXT, working as the Creative Director. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare + "kare", + + // Mary Kenneth Keller, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller became the first American woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science in 1965. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenneth_Keller + "keller", + // Har Gobind Khorana - Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har_Gobind_Khorana "khorana", @@ -227,9 +275,19 @@ var ( // Marie-Jeanne de Lalande - French astronomer, mathematician and cataloguer of stars - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_de_Lalande "lalande", + // Hedy Lamarr - Actress and inventor. The principles of her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr + "lamarr", + // Mary Leakey - British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Leakey "leakey", + // Henrietta Swan Leavitt - she was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt + "leavitt", + + // Barbara Liskov, together with Jeannette Wing, developed the Liskov substitution principle. Liskov was also the winner of the Turing Prize in 2008. + "liskov", // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov + "wing", // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Wing + // Ada Lovelace invented the first algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace (thanks James Turnbull) "lovelace", @@ -254,9 +312,15 @@ var ( // Lise Meitner - Austrian/Swedish physicist who was involved in the discovery of nuclear fission. The element meitnerium is named after her - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner "meitner", + // Carla Meninsky, was the game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games Dodge 'Em and Warlords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Meninsky + "meninsky", + // Johanna Mestorf - German prehistoric archaeologist and first female museum director in Germany - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Mestorf "mestorf", + // Lise Meitner was an Austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. She played a major role in the discovery of nuclear fission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner + "mietner", + // Samuel Morse - contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs and was a co-developer of the Morse code - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse "morse", @@ -266,6 +330,9 @@ var ( // Alfred Nobel - a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer (inventor of dynamite) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel "nobel", + // Poppy Northcutt. Poppy Northcutt was the first woman to work as part of NASA’s Mission Control. http://www.businessinsider.com/poppy-northcutt-helped-apollo-astronauts-2014-12?op=1 + "northcutt", + // Panini - Ancient Indian linguist and grammarian from 4th century CE who worked on the world's first formal system - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini#Comparison_with_modern_formal_systems "panini", @@ -314,15 +381,24 @@ var ( // Jean E. Sammet developed FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_E._Sammet "sammet", + // Carol Shaw - Originally an Atari employee, Carol Shaw is said to be the first female video game designer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw_(video_game_designer) + "shaw", + // Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - French virologist and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine; her work was fundamental in identifying HIV as the cause of AIDS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Barr%C3%A9-Sinoussi "sinoussi", // Richard Matthew Stallman - the founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. He also invented the concept of copyleft to protect the ideals of this movement, and enshrined this concept in the widely-used GPL (General Public License) for software. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman "stallman", + // Janese Swanson (with others) developed the first of the Carmen Sandiego games. She went on to found Girl Tech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janese_Swanson + "swanson", + // Aaron Swartz was influential in creating RSS, Markdown, Creative Commons, Reddit, and much of the internet as we know it today. He was devoted to freedom of information on the web. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz "swartz", + // Bertha Swirles was a theoretical physicist who made a number of contributions to early quantum theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Swirles + "swirles", + // Nikola Tesla invented the AC electric system and every gadget ever used by a James Bond villain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla "tesla", @@ -338,6 +414,9 @@ var ( // Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya - is a notable Indian engineer. He is a recipient of the Indian Republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. On his birthday, 15 September is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India in his memory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visvesvaraya "visvesvaraya", + // Roberta Williams, did pioneering work in graphical adventure games for personal computers, particularly the King's Quest series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Williams + "williams", + // Sophie Wilson designed the first Acorn Micro-Computer and the instruction set for ARM processors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson "wilson",