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Jeeze; for a second I thought Netflix had somehow made a sentient CD platform... > http://www.artificialbrains.com/spinnaker http://www.artificialbrains.com/sp

• randomsearch 11y ago
  Indeed. It's not a good sign that Netflix weren't aware of this very high-profile long-standing project with the same name. It suggests that they aren't much in touch with the academic CS community.
  • biot 11y ago
    Should names be globally unique? Spinnaker Software [0] was around in the early 1980s and can claim the throne for longest use of the name in the computer space. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinnaker_Software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinnaker_Software
    • randomsearch 11y ago
      > Should names be globally unique? I didn't say that. I just think it's unlikely they would have chosen the name if they were aware of Manchester's project, which means they didn't know about it, which means they don't read much about CS research.
• jguimont 11y ago
  A Spinnaker is a type sail first and foremost.
  • js2 11y ago
    And also the first and foremost sail. :-)
• trextrex 11y ago
  There is also a SpiNNaker computer platform [1] [1] http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/ http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/