Who we honor and recognize in this country

[ka9q]

Kimberly and I recently drove to Las Vegas for The Amazing Meeting 9 sponsored by the James Randi Educational Foundation. We've long been fans and supporters of Randi and occasional readers of magazines like the Skeptical Inquirer, but this was our first TAM

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Naming things

[jeffk2000]

Well, famous mathematicians and scientists get things they discovered and worked for named after them, perhaps even scientific centers and equipment. Rest assured among people who study, "Feynman Diagrams" are well regarded.

Which reminds me, in the Watson jeopardy match, despite the fact that YYZ&YTZ are in Canada, the similarity of properties of those who they were named after for Chicago's ORD&MDW confused Watson's algorithms enough to disregard the "US CITIES" categorie of the question. [Pearson & Billy Bishop vs. O'Hare & Midway] see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(artificial_intelligence_software)

I think you're fighting centuries of tradition on the naming of architecture (War heros, not football players, but since I'm from Canada, I presume most people reading this note should know this about Tillman, although I did not and had to look it up to "get it").