Sunday, June 25, 2006

Algorithmer?

Seriously, what do we call a person who does Algorithms research? Algorithmicist is unwieldy. And rhymes with spooky things. I used Algorithmer. It did not get much support. And it rhymes with materials, which may also be undesirable.

10 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

My first thought would be "algorithms researcher". It's longer than any of your suggestions, but has the advantage that people are more likely to recognize the words.

8:52 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Algorithmician? Algorithmist? I don't see how you get to algorithmicist naturally; the ci isn't justified.

In Europe, people say Informatician / Informatiker, but of course this represents a wider category, e.g. including Complexiticists :-)

--mip

7:56 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ALRIGHT MORE

9:27 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Algo-man !


:)Piotr

12:33 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's very sexist Piotr! ;-)

--kunal

1:17 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Al-Khwarismi
(alternately, use the fullname)

9:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

in Greece we call it :

Algorithmas...

1:06 AM  
Blogger metoo said...

- I find it difficult to tell CS researchers in other areas that I am an algorithms researcher. They all think they do algorithms, whatever their area: ML, PL, Networking, Databases, ...

- Algorithmas, I like! Let me be silly and say, Algorithmas Maximus. Sounds strong.

6:47 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

in greece although an algorithmer is starving.

So, you can call him poor

9:37 PM  
Anonymous cheap viagra said...

Typically, when an algorithm is associated with processing information, data is read from an input source, written to an output device, so I think that it can be one of the best professions in the world!22dd

10:08 AM  

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