RE: name

Neal Cardwell (cardwell@cs.washington.edu)
Fri, 1 May 1998 19:29:16 -0700 (PDT)

here's a similar one with highway (or heart) betterification connotations:

"bypass"

though the semantics match nearly exactly what the routing tunnels are
doing (building a fast path around congestion) i still like the sound of
"detour" better,

neal

On Fri, 1 May 1998 savage@cs.washington.edu wrote:

> The non-negative heuristic is the weakest of all of them. SPIN some
> negative connotations as did RAID. I think short, and active are more
> important heuristics and detour does well and also fits the semantic
> meaning constraint.
>
> - Stefan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Neal Cardwell [SMTP:cardwell@cs.washington.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, May 01, 1998 7:09 PM
> > To: syn@cs
> > Subject: Re: name
> >
> >
> > > Stefan didn't immediately give this one a thumb's down, so I thought
> > > I would throw it out...a name for the tunneling project: Detour.
> >
> > i really like that one, though stefan's heuristic of avoiding
> > easily-negativized names would argue against it...
> >
> > howbout one after the search for a better route across america running
> > through this neck of the woods: "Northwest Passage". yeah, too
> > verbose...
> >
> > neal
>