I facepalm your facepalm.
Is it possible that the author knows about Isaac Asimov, but that she also knows that Asimov is also the name of a character from Halo? And that it fits in a pattern in the Halo context and not in the Sci-fi-author context, and she therefore reports it as such?
What if there were a Halo character called Sinatra, and the Windows feature would be code-named Sinatra, would you call the author out (sigh! facepalm!) for being too stupid to know about the actor?
EDIT: personal pronoun gender. thanks cwyers.