Talk:Nimrod

Origin of the name

The name's origin was actually a failed attempt to secure funding. I forgot what I called it originally, but a time arrived when I was trying to find funding for an effort to specify and implement it. One of the places I looked at was NASA, where someone I had known as an undergraduate at MIT worked, and had some funding available. He and I had used 'nimrod' as a friendly epithet, back then, to refer to each other - 'you nimrod!' So I called it 'Nimrod' in a proposal to him. Didn't work - but the name stuck. (DARPA later funded it, but delays in getting the funding out meant it missed its window.) I had some backronym for what it stood for, but the recursive one which one of the Nimrod people at BBN - maybe Charlie Lynn? - came up with was instantly recognized by everyone as infinitely better. Jnc (talk) 08:56, 29 February 2024 (CET)