Gimme a break!

[Jordan B. Pollack]

Speaking of NIPS versus IJCNN, At least NIPS is pronouncable, even though,
as Terry S pointed out, Nabisco already holds it as a trademark.

If the international joint conference is to be as lasting a success
as, say, IJCAI, then its acronym should smoothly roll off the tongue.

Here are some of the alternatives I've just come up with:

Minor variations:

JINNC (Jink) Permute the word order
IJCONN Same name, but include the "ON"
ICONN  Leave out the "Joint" (for a drug free meeting?)
ICONS  International Conf. on Neural Systems (Hey! This is even a Word!)

The most elegant name is simply
NN  "Neural Networks", which can be spoken as either
"N Squared"   signifying both its size and technical nature, or
"Double-N",   signifying both the need for a big spread
              and the yearly "round-up" of research results like cattle...

Of course the search for acronyms usually generates useless debris:

NIPSOID  Neural Information Processing Systems On an International Dimension
MANIC  Most (of the) Artificially Neural International Community
DNE    (Sounds like DNA?) Dear Neural Enthusiast...
BNANA  Big Network of Artificial Neural Aficionados
ARTIST  Adaptive Resonance Theory as International Science and Technology
IBSH  I better Stop Here.