The OO Trivia Show October Software Engineering Potpourri Mobile Computing and the Net AcronymsModels Second Round

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Question Answer Software Engineering-100 This photo from the first NATO conference on software engineering (1968) is of the first Turing Award winner. Who is Alan Perlis?

Question Answer Software Engineering-200 He is the new CTO and Deputy Director of the organization that manages CMMI? Who is Doug Schmidt (new employee at SEI)?

Question Answer Software Engineering-300 He is the author of the recent book “The Design of Design.” Who is Fred Brooks?

Question Answer Software Engineering-400 The future location of ICSE What is Hawaii?

Question Answer Software Engineering-500 The “Most Expensive Hyphen in History” caused a failure of this rocket booster in What is Mariner 1? (

Question Answer This Java collection class is a mutable sequence of characters with no guarantee of synchronization? What is StringBuilder? Potpourri-100

Question Answer Potpourri-200 This event took place on January 1, What is the start of the Unix epoch?

Question Answer Potpourri-300 In 2006, she became the first woman to win the Turing Award for her work in languages. Who is Fran Allen?

Question Answer Potpourri-400 This science fiction author said “I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.” Who is Isaac Asimov?

Question Answer Potpourri-500 A “sleepy” web architecture. What is REST (Representational State Transfer)?

Question Answer Mobile Computing/Net-100 This Google Vice President co-designed TCP/IP. Who is Vint Cerf?

Question Answer This social network rhymes with Microsoft’s search engine. What is Ning? Mobile Computing/Net-200

Question Answer This company received its startup funding as a transfer from one PDA to another. What is PayPal? Mobile Computing/Net-300

Question Answer This HTTP method is used to echo a request (often for debugging purposes). What is a TRACE? Mobile Computing/Net-400

Question Answer The Android Binder uses a mobile IPC mechanism that can be traced to this operating system. What is BeOS? Mobile Computing/Net-500

Question Answer Acronyms-100 SPLASH What is Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity?

Question Answer Acronyms-200 In 1914, CTR (Computing Tabulating Recording) was given a new name with this acronym. What is IBM?

Question Answer Acronyms-300 AOSD What is Aspect-Oriented Software Development?

Question Answer Acronyms-400 EC2 What is Elastic Compute Cloud (from Amazon)?

Question Answer Acronyms-500 AVD (in the context of mobile phones) What is Android Virtual Device?

Question Answer Models-100 This Statecharts expert gave an afternoon keynote talk at OOPSLA 1997 in Atlanta. Who is David Harel?

Question Answer Models-200 He is an advocate of Executable UML and developed a software methodology with Sally Shlaer. Who is Stephen Mellor?

Question Answer Models-300 These were the three independent methodologies developed by each of the Amigos before they unified. What are the Booch Method, Object Modeling Technique (OMT), and Objectory?

Question Answer Models-400 A metamodel is similar to this concept in programming language definition. What is a grammar?

Question Answer Models-500 This is the name for a model transformation that is written for a single metamodel. What is an endogenous model transformation?