Wednesday, July 20, 2011

More SLAM neologisms

In addition to our new uses of slam, the word, SLAM as an acronym, tends to be very popular with tech-types. SLAM is, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping -- a way of using robotics to improve maps. Or, SLAM is a Microsoft Research project (Software, Languages Analysis and Modeling; later changed to SocialLocation Annotation Mobile.) I have no idea what this is about, but it is not to be confused with BLAST, a similar something-or-other that stands for Berkeley Lazy Abstraction Software verification Tool. It all makes these techies sound like a very aggressive bunch.

Oh, yeah -- SLAM is also the St. Louis Art Museum.

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