r/MachineLearning - [N] NIPS keeps it name unchanged

Montreal, October 22 2018 -- The Board of Trustees of the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation has decided not to change the name of their main conference. The Board has been engaged in ongoing discussions concerning the name of the Neural Information Processing Systems, or NIPS, conference. The current acronym, NIPS, has undesired connotations. The Name-of-NIPS Action Team was formed, in order to better understand the prevailing attitudes about the name. The team conducted polls of the NIPS community requesting submissions of alternative names, rating the existing and alternative names, and soliciting additional comments.