Definition of "Alice"

"My name is Alice, but—""It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?""Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully."Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."

1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter 6

She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice', but she used to deny that she was really an Alice. I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.

1968, Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House, Delacorte Press, page xiv

Alice sends the message, "I am Alice," to Bob. Bob chooses a nonce, N {\displaystyle N} and sends it to Alice. Alice encrypts the nonce using Alice and Bob's symmetric secret key, K A − B {\displaystyle K_{A-B}} , and sends the encrypted nonce, K A − B ( N ) {\displaystyle K_{A-B}(N)} back to Bob.

1978, V.S. Bagad, I.A. Dhotre, Computer Networks‎, Technical Publications

Alice opens her lantern, Bob opens his the instant he sees Alice's, and Alice notes the time T {\displaystyle T} that passes between the moment she opens hers and the moment she sees the light returning to her from Bob's.

2009, N. David Mermin, It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity, Princeton University Press, page 19

At that point in my second visit to the Alice, I'd been there only a day. […] they're doing Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.

2002, Sylvia Lawson, “Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance”, in How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays, page 17

In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice.

2003, Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants, Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice, page 27

"Don't waste yer time in The Alice, get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."

2004, Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories, page 7