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In the real world, computers are typically given names, usually strictly functional names or serials (such as accounting_server or fx98v4p), but also themed names, in order to allow for identification, particularly over a network. Since even professionals (both fictional and real) struggle with pronunciation and identification of an obscure manufacturing code, pop culture naturally has a tendency to seep into the naming of products. While it initially wasn't prevalent in fiction, writers and producers soon realized that naming computers was common practice, and proceeded to make computer and robot names substantially more dramatic than groupings like Cleo, Tony and Jules.note Mail servers at Boston College during the mid-1990s. In order to make an AI seem sinister or awesome enough, a few themes are typically adhered to in movies and literature that can allow said AI be categorized into several groups: Acronyms: By use of Shoehorned First Letters if necessary.note Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer 9000, Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System "Automatic Computer" names: A theme literally as old as ENIAC and popularized by Univac. Mostly a Forgotten Trope outside of Retraux works. note Multivac, Brainiac, Kurt Vonnegut's EPICAC Names Related To Functional descriptionsnote (Skynet, The Matrix) Abbreviated model names or serial numbers: note R2D2, KITT "Electronic Brain" names: somewhat of an Undead Horse Trope, possibly on its way to full resurrection by tropes like Organic Technology and Wet Ware CPU note Brainiac, Deep Thought, Mother Brain Famous Figures, Places, or Things: A common way of hinting at the nature and complexity of an AI. May also reference the history of computing. note TheThinker, Legion Human Names - used both as a source of ironic humor and as a way to indicate that an AI is truly sapient. Often overlaps with the Acronym convention and Famous Figures. note ADA, Eliza Names without meaning beyond being awesome note Dark Star This practice is Truth in Television. While more common in the era of Mainframes and Minicomputers, the practice of giving computers clever pet names still remains popular among hardcore computer enthusiasts and IT departments. In addition to using the same naming conventions already mentioned, there are several additional patterns found in the naming of real-world computers, servers, robots, and networks. As one might expect when certain personality types become involved, these can be a bit odd: Names based on the type of computer- essentially the modern form of the "Automatic Computer" name. For instance, Texas Tech's primary supercomputer is based on a Beowulf Cluster Structure, and so was named Hrothgar after the king in Beowulf. Theme Naming: When an individual builds a personal network or an organization has multiple large servers or supercomputers, they frequently give them themed names. There are several especially common themes: ironically cute and/or completely absurd names like Sesame Street characters, brands of beer, and anime characters. In Jokes like an astronomy lab having all of its servers named after obscure star names. Specialties: For instance the HP Graphics lab's early 3d test beds "transform", "matrix", "raster", "jaggy", "spline", etc. Religious: Figures from mythology. It's not uncommon to see, for example, UNIX machines named hermes, zeus, athena, and morpheus, with Windows workstations being odin, thor, freya and Android devices being michael, raphael, gabriel, lucifer. The Trope Namer is this page on the Portland Pattern Repository website. Note that this trope is specifically about computers, robots, and A.I.s that are given abnormal titles; see Named Weapons, I Call It "Vera" and I Call Him "Mister Happy" for other examples. Note that an aversion of this trope involves a bland AI in an extraordinary setting (e.g. a computer named "computer" in a high space opera setting). See also Robot Names and Name-Tron. One Bad Mother also has enough examples to be a Sister Trope. Can overlap with What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?. |
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Terminator has Skynet, but the individual Terminators don't have onscreen names, just model numbers. | |
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The Jetsons had a computer/robot named UNIBLAB and George's work computer, RUDI. | |
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T.W.I.T, the on-board computer of Fluff Catt's shuttle transporter in The Space Gypsy Adventures. Ostensibly, the name stands for Terminal of Waveline Interception and Transmission. In reality, Fluff calls it that because it is one! | |
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The Talos Principle: One possibility for how Elohim got its name. Elohim is the simulation's Holistic Integration Manager, sort of an AI dungeon master, and the supercomputer is divided into three partitions, including EL-0 that the simulation is running in; EL-0 HIM. The various names of the other bots, who left behind messages (as well as your own characters name) are mentioned in one document as basically being video game handles dumped into a randomizer, due to a lack of time and anything better to use. |
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Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space. The Great Calculator (originally the 2-X Machina) is a Zee Rust Master Computer that runs the entire solar system. | |
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The Doctor Who Expanded Universe, especially in works by Ben Aaronovitch and Kate Orman, is fond of AIs with names in block capitals, but which don't seem to be acronyms. These include FLORANCE in Transit, SLEEPY (and GRUMPY) in SLEEPY and DOCTOR in Seeing I. | |
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While I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream only has one computer, he's given several names; first Allied Mastercomputer, then Adaptive Manipulator, then Aggressive Menace. Finally, it calls itself AM; I think, therefore I AM. | |
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Reddit allows users to name its servers if the user purchased Reddit Gold on a day Reddit hit its Reddit Gold goal. The names tend to reference pop-culture, recent news, memes, or puns. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: The Prophet is an automated database equipped with an AI to communicate with humans. Being a hyper-intelligent, sentient computer, it uses its vast knowledge to spread itself through information networks to ensure its continued existence and further its goals through all manner of deceit. | |
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The real-life Shub-Internet was named after a joke in The Jargon File and operated as a server in the Pentagon for a number of years. Obviously a very silly name without meaning, relating to the Internet's origins as a US Defense Department project. | |
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Half-Life 2 and its expansions feature the burly robot "Dog". As the name implies, Dog was built to be a pet of Alyx Vance's. He understands human commands, but can not speak himself, communicating mostly through head gestures. Like a playful dog, Dog sometimes gets over excited and carried away and has to be told by Alyx to stop whatever he's doing. | |
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Hackers has our hacker protagonists trying to hack a supercomputer called the Gibson, named in honor of William Gibson. One of the hackers' own computers is also named Lucy. | |
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Metroid: Other M: MB is a machine created by the Federation to control their bioweapons. | |
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Doctor Blight on Captain Planet and the Planeteers had MAL. | |
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Lobsang, the AI in The Long Earth, although he claims that he's a Tibetan Buddhist who happens to have reincarnated as an AI. | |
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Giants Series: ZORAC, VISAR, and JEVEX all get all-caps names, implying they're acronyms of some sort, but we never find out more. ZORAC may be inspired by Automatic Computer-type names. In the original books, they're printed in small caps, but that didn't survive the move to e-books, where the names are given in all-lowercase. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The three NERV mainframes are called Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar, after the Three Wise Men. | |
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There are not a lot of A.I.s in the Whateley Universe because of the ongoing threat of The Palm, but Loophole has an illegal A.I. named Carmen. Most disturbingly, the voice and holographic image for Carmen are modeled after the mutant who raped her. | |
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In Marathon, there doesn't seem to be a theme: among them, Durandal (Roland's sword from "Song of Roland"), Tycho (presumably after the astronomer), Thoth (Egyptian mythology), and Leela (pre-dates Futurama by nearly a decade) | |
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SIGNALIS: The main character's designation is Land Survey/Ship Technician Replika-512, or LSTR-512, but she's referred to as Elster. | |
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In Obsidian, an AI-controlled satellite that dispenses nanobots is called "Ceres", after the Greek goddess, since the AI was programmed to use its nanobots to fix Earth's polluted atmosphere. | |
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The Xanth series has a computer named Com Pewter. | |
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System Shock 2 has another corrupt AI named XERXES 8933A/A. | |
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The most intelligent IA in S.S.D.D. is called The Oracle, he has two purposes: predicting the future and improving his performance predicting the future. | |
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man names his A.I.s (first JARVIS and then FRIDAY, both of whom are Fun with Acronyms examples), his lab robots (Dummy and Butterfingers), and at times even gives nicknames to his armors, who also have technical "Mark-*" names (in Iron Man 3, for instance, the heavy lifting Mark XXXVIII is "Igor"; in Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Hulkbuster - or more specifically, its delivery satellite - is "Veronica"). | |
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CABAL (Computer Assisted Biologically Augmented Lifeform) in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun and its expansion. As its name implies, it uses People Jars to power it and at the Nod ending of Firestorm it shows that it's keeping Kane alive. There's also LEGION from the third game's expansion Kane's Wrath, with the acronym standing for "Logarithmically Engineered Governing Intelligence Of Nod". | |
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W.O.T.A.N. in Luther Arkwright is the supercomputer used on parallel 00.00.00 to keep track of events on other parallels in The Multiverse. | |
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Erwin from User Friendly. Overall benevolent, unless you're Steff the marketing VP. But, well, Steff's an asshole. | |
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Halo uses a mixture: UNSC AIs mostly have either regular names like Serina and/or history/mythology-themed ones like Cortana, named after the sword of Holger the Dane from The Song of Roland (thus also a nod to Marathon's Durandal). Forerunner AIs all have somewhat abstract "adjective + noun" names like Guilty Spark and Mendicant Bias. | |
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TRON has a tendency to go nuts with these, as most of the characters are sentient computer Programs. The title character? Short for "electronic" (though there is a real-world BASIC command with the name). Tron's two apprentices in the TRON: Uprising animated series were named Beck and Cyrus after a graphical rendering algorithm. Freeze-Frame Bonus material in TRON: Legacy show a lot of Programs that were named for real-world computer scientists, and TRON 2.0 went crazy with Theme Naming, giving normal civilian Programs human-style names like Felicia and Archie, virus-infected Programs names like Duradanal and Rampancy, the security software names like Morton and Spoolserv, Resource Hog gangsters names like Exploder and Photo Edit, etc. | |
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EDI, introduced in Mass Effect 2 is an acronym, with her name standing for Enhanced Defense Intelligence. | |
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In Mass Effect 3, Dr. Eva Core is named after a deceased companion of The Illusive Man, with the implication that she was something of a Replacement Goldfish for the original. | |
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On the Shoulders of Giants, a Mass Effect fic, almost universally employs name without meaning, ranging from fanciful to historically significant to indistinguishable from an organic being's given name. | |
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In Young Wizards, Dairine's wizard manual takes the form of a sentient computer that tends to "upgrade" itself every once in a while, most notably from a desktop model to a laptop with retractable legs. She calls it Spot. | |
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Closed Mondays: When activated, the computer sculpture identifies itself as a replica of the Model 505, Type P Electro-Brain. | |
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WOPR is the name of the military supercomputer in WarGames, standing for War Operation Plan Response. It was intended by the writers to be a more amusing name (reminiscent of "Whopper") than that of NORAD's real-life SIOP (Single Integrated Operation Plan), although SIOP was a series of documents rather than a computer. | |
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Mass Effect series: EDI, introduced in Mass Effect 2 is an acronym, with her name standing for Enhanced Defense Intelligence. Legion, meanwhile, is both a fanciful-but-appropriate functional name. Since geth have no concept of individuality, EDI contrived the Meaningful Name from Biblical mythology. While it is indeed an awesome name, it was intended to draw the parallel as a way to understand the geth's gestalt consciousness. In Mass Effect 3, Dr. Eva Core is named after a deceased companion of The Illusive Man, with the implication that she was something of a Replacement Goldfish for the original. In Mass Effect: Andromeda, the local AI is named SAM (Simulative Adaptive Matrix). The name isn't unique to that AI: each of the five arks had a SAM on board, referred to as such. |
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In the first game of the Outpost franchise the default name (you can change it if you want) of the AI that helps you is "Aphrodite", after the Greek goddess of love and fecundity. | |
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Defenders of the Earth has Dynak-X and Octon, both of whom regularly keep the Defenders or Ming (accordingly) informed of what is happening in the opposing camp. | |
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Star Trek, in general, tends to be surprisingly mundane — A.I.s tend to have personal names (Data, Lore, Vaal, Landru) or bear legacy names (Nomad, Voyager), and non-intelligent computers seldom have names at all. There is a scattering of model number, such as M-5 from the TOS episode "The Ultimate Computer". The Borg, though not computers, tend to have names/designations related to their location and function such as "Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01." | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED CE.73: Stargazer: While testing the GSX-401FW, L'ange decides that it's "rude" to keep referring the the mobile suit's onboard A.I. as "401", so McGriff tells it that it's new name is "Stargazer". It immediately changes its name on the command readouts. | |
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In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, the Architect gives the names of the three Trinity Processors that were part of the Phase Transition Experiment as Ontos*(better known as Alvis in Xenoblade Chronicles 1), Logos*(Malos' original name), and Pneuma*(Pyra and Mythra's, as well as the semi-canon Fan Nickname of their combined form), the Greek names of the Holy Trinity. Though when Malos presses him on what the names mean, the Architect only says that "it means your creators were pretentious fools." | |
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Red vs. Blue: The main A.I.s are named after the Greek alphabet. The first to be created is named Alpha, but the others' names are seemingly picked at random from the list, including Delta, Theta, Omega, Sigma... There's also F.I.L.S.S., Freelancer Integrated Logistics and Security System, pronounced "Phyllis." Otherwise known as Sheila. |
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Case Closed: One of the characters from the Night Baron Murder Case has named his laptop „Satomi“, the name of his late mother, and he treats his laptop like his girlfriend. Conan is creeped out by this. | |
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As mentioned above, Portal is based around a human's dealings with the master control computer of a giant laboratory complex, who is named GLaDOS. GLaDOS is obsessed with conducting science experiments and has a skewed sense of morality. It is implied that she killed all other humans in the complex, though likely as a self defense measure to prevent them switching her off. | |
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In addition to GLaDOS's return, Portal 2 also features a major AI character named Wheatley, who is no more than a robotic ball who relies on transport rails or the player to take him where he needs to go. | |
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Questionable Content's AnthroPCs generally have personal names (like Winslow and Momo-tan), though Pintsize is a somewhat jocular functional name and one-shot character PT410x (likely a serial number or, since PT410x was owner-constructed, a fanciful model number) eschews the very idea of a "slave name". | |
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Alien. The Nostromo's Master Computer is called "Mother". Whatever maternal image the Company was invoking is hampered by it being programmed with orders that might not be in the crew's interest. In Alien: Resurrection the Auriga's computer is called Father in a Call-Back to the first movie. | |
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Over its long run, Doctor Who has been all over this trope, from a war computer called WOTAN to the utilitarian Matrix (Gallifrey's equivalent of Star Trek's Memory Alpha) to mastermind A.I.s like BOSS and Mentalis and functionally-named robots like Kamelion and K-9. According to series 6, the Doctor's TARDIS is named "Sexy". | |
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Blake's 7 gave us Oracnote a stand-alone super computer that could be carried around, Zen note the central computer on The Liberator and Slavenote the central computer on Scorpio. In this case they were Meaningful Names — Orac was (though only in its introductory episode) an oracle, extrapolating future events from the data it collected. The alien computer Zen was presented as a mysterious keeper of knowledge. Slave had been programmed with a cringing subservient personality. | |
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Silicon Valley: Guilfoyle has named his server "Anton" after Anton LaVey. | |
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The Turing Test: The AI you interacts with is called "TOM", which stands for "Technical Operations Machine". At one point TOM claims it has a twin AI called "Michael" the ISA uses for testing. | |
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Portal series: As mentioned above, Portal is based around a human's dealings with the master control computer of a giant laboratory complex, who is named GLaDOS. GLaDOS is obsessed with conducting science experiments and has a skewed sense of morality. It is implied that she killed all other humans in the complex, though likely as a self defense measure to prevent them switching her off. In addition to GLaDOS's return, Portal 2 also features a major AI character named Wheatley, who is no more than a robotic ball who relies on transport rails or the player to take him where he needs to go. |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has a functional name: Roofus the roof-repairing robot. And although it was nonsentient, there was also the Ultra-Ballistaroid: a steam-powered transforming ballista made of snow. Molly built and named them. | |
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Played with in Homestar Runner: Throughout the run of Strong Bad Emails, Strong Bad goes through a series of computers whose official names are deliberately uncreative descriptions of themselves like "Compy" the desktop computer and "Lappy" the laptop. | |
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In the Chaos Timeline, several A.I.s named themselves after random strings - three of them are called X27, a_gcl and Horace. | |
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From Battleborn: ISIC's name is derived from him originally being an I/O system integration and coordination subroutine within Minion Robotics. The supreme AI that once kept all the Magnuses as well as much of the LLC's systems in top working condition is named after the Magna Carta. MINREC's name comes from being a MINeral REClamation Magnus in charge of recycling facilities. |
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System Shock: In the first game, the villain is a corrupt AI computer named SHODAN, Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network. After being corrupted by the player character and developing a malevolent AI, SHODAN eliminates her human masters and begins a scheme to escape her space station home and transmit her personality into the computers of planet earth. System Shock 2 has another corrupt AI named XERXES 8933A/A. |
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In Mass Effect: Andromeda, the local AI is named SAM (Simulative Adaptive Matrix). The name isn't unique to that AI: each of the five arks had a SAM on board, referred to as such. | |
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The unique computer from Monday Begins on Saturday, possibly intelligent and definitely having a soul, is called "Aldan" after a river in Siberia (its actual model name is Aldan-3). | |
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The Culture: the various artificially intelligent ships (aka the Culture Minds) name themselves... and since they have strange senses of humor, a lot of their names can be very silly. Examples include names like "Space Monster", "Frank Exchange of Views", "I Blame Your Mother", and "Gravitas Free Zone". | |
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Spongebob Squarepants has KAREN, Plankton's computer wife. | |
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Short Circuit and Short Circuit 2 feature a military robot warrior project called SAINT (Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport). Each robot is given a numerical designation, and our hero is Number 5. He's called "Number 5" throughout the first film, until the end, when he gives himself the name Johnny 5. | |
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