prometheus

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Prometheus
    n 1: (Greek mythology) the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and
         gave it to mankind; Zeus punished him by chaining him to a
         rock where an eagle gnawed at his liver until Hercules
         rescued him

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Prometheus \Pro*me"the*us\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, from ? to have
   forethought for.] (Class. Myth.)
   The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by
   the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to
   have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire
   stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent
   Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture
   preyed upon his liver.
   [1913 Webster] Prominence

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Prometheus

   <language> A programmaing language geared for logic,
   mathematics, {AI}, and string, list and database processing.
   Prometheus runs on a variety of {platforms} from {Macintosh}
   to {MS-DOS}

   (http://aard.tracor.com/Jason/Prometheus/).

   (1996-03-04)