The author is a female. And she adds additional information about the origin of the program inside the Xbox team; it's not that she doesn't know who Asimov is,

The author is a female. And she adds additional information about the origin of the program inside the Xbox team; it's not that she doesn't know who Asimov is, it's more likely that someone involved in it TOLD HER that they took the name from Halo, which in turn used the name of the writer.