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There was a draft on Wordpress about the history of the names of the FEniCS components. This should perhaps be put on the website somewhere. The content of the draft was:

FE is Finite Element(s)
CS is Computational Science, Computer Science or Computational Software
ni sits nicely in the middle

[Andy R Terrel (andy-terrel)](https://launchpad.net/~andy-terrel) said on 2012-08-13: | # 2
> Just to add a few more details here (although I was not around back
> then so correct me if I am wrong). The original “federation” of software
> packages that became the FEniCS software package were combined at the
> University of Chicago along with participation of Chalmers and TTI-C.
> The mascot of the UofC is a phoenix which I believe was part of the
> inspiration of the name.

> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 03:23:51PM +0100, Marie Rognes wrote:
>
> Is DOLFIN an acronym for anything?
>

> Yes: Dynamic Object-oriented Library for FINite element computation
>
> --
> Anders

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