Steve is neither a person nor an acronym. When choosing a project name, the team wanted something simple, friendly, and easy to remember. We chose steve (written with a lower-case "s" except at the start of a sentence) for those reasons.

Close observers of the project may have noted that the project's first paper was entitled "Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement," a bit of an in joke, but not (as some have suggested) the source of the project's name. Our project name also predated the trailer for the movie, "Over the Hedge," which might otherwise appear to be a source of inspiration.