Source : WordNet®

Russell
     n 1: United States religious leader who founded the sect that is
          now called Jehovah's Witnesses (1852-1916) [syn: {Charles
          Taze Russell}]
     2: English film director (born in 1927) [syn: {Ken Russell}, {Henry
        Kenneth Alfred Russell}]
     3: United States basketball center (born in 1934) [syn: {Bill
        Russell}, {William Felton Russell}]
     4: United States entertainer remembered for her roles in comic
        operas (1861-1922) [syn: {Lillian Russell}]
     5: United States astronomer who developed a theory of stellar
        evolution (1877-1957) [syn: {Henry Russell}, {Henry Norris
        Russell}]
     6: Irish writer whose pen name was A.E. (1867-1935) [syn: {George
        William Russell}, {A.E.}]
     7: English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with
        Whitehead (1872-1970) [syn: {Bertrand Russell}, {Bertrand
        Arthur William Russell}, {Earl Russell}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Russell
     
        (After {Bertrand Russell}) A compact, {polymorphical}ly typed
        {functional language} by A. Demers & J. Donahue with {bignum}s
        and {continuation}s.  Types are themselves {first-class}
        values and may be passed as arguments.
     
        {(ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/russell/russell.tar.Z)}.
     
        ["An Informal Description of Russell", H. Boehm et al, Cornell
        CS TR 80-430, 1980].
     
        ["Understanding Russell: A First Attempt", J.G. Hook in LNCS
        173, Springer].
     
        (1995-03-27)