That's the acronym we used...
But take into account that on this time dinosaurs still roamed all over continental Europe.
At the Ecology Department, our computer was a Texas TI-59 calculator with printer extension. And somewhat later we bought an Olivetti P6040 (or P4060 - it was a Basic programmable calculator, with 2KByte of RAM and a beautiful, cozy "floppy disk" reader: the "floppies" where just that, mylar disks about 2" wide, on which information was written using a spiral path. Data size was, if I'm right, 2KByte as well. It took some years more for us to see the first Olivetti M20 (an Italian PC, with computing power somewhat comparable to the early IBM PC, but with a true 16 bit procesor, Zilog Z8000).
So, it's quite likely the acronym passed undetected: the overall Generalized Lotka-Volterra modeling business was quite short-lived.
The professor I worked with on those times shortly after I left for working in the industry (about 1987) had already switched to energy fluxes.
I imagine being among the ten or eleven people in the World still using the friendly GLV acronym: as a remind of a beautiful moment in my life.
And we
were adventurous! My first assignment, back in 1982, was a statistical study of the properties of genetic code (as known on those days) towards pointwise mutations. I used my personal TI-58C, for the simulations. <3
Then, other little-and-interesting works came.
My friend, professor Guido Pacchetti, urged me to "do the impossible", that is, learn programming.
I was that kind of stereotypical "people-oriented good-girl" person... I had fallen in love with science, since I was 7, and found "programming" fascinating since the high school. But in some way I convinced myself I could not learn to really program, even in a million years. My friend Guido's answer: "Well, let's accelerate the process a little bit." And he gave me two huge books with some gene and protein sequences.
I can say, it worked: somewhat. From then on, I've programmed things ranging from TI-58C to MicroVAX II passing through iAPX86, microcontrollers, ... Always using them "instrumentally", to solve real-world problems, or to perform automation tasks (my specialty, around 1989, were supervisory control systems mainly for thermo-electrical power plants; to date, it is "strange" turbulence-sensing systems for atmospheric dispersion).
And confidence by confidence, one other personal divinity of mine was my high school sciences teacher, Ms A.R. Nespoli. She noticed I was passionate on life sciences, but without any method, and even less confidence. She devoted much time to me, my formation as a human being and, who knows, maybe a future scientist. It was her, who presented me to a friend of hers who teached in Milan University, Marco Ferraguti, still a goof friend of mine. Her devotion was anti-cyclical: all my other female teachers initially pressured me to follow a human-sciences path. The only male teacher I had, of Maths & Physics, on the contrary tried somewhat to
avoid to follow a scientific career (in his view I was not one of the "talented"; interestingly, the only other in my class who enrolled in Mathematics, like me, was another girl, also "non-talented": maybe, being "prof-X-non-talented" was a good predictor of success in a STEM career
). Eventually, one of the other female teachers foreseeing for me a brilliant "traditionally feminine" academic life understood I was determined to continue in STEM, and also helped a lot "forming" me.
Sorry for saying all this... But I strongly feel we are (mostly, in my view) a consequence of the encounters we made. Mine were
really lucky, and I was immensely fortunate. It's a pity, all these wonderful people remain invisible. But without them, I feel the World would be colder, harsher, and more dysfunctional than it already is.
And the GLVs were part of the story...