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Question Answer AI-100 A test in which a remote human interrogator communicates with a computer and with a person. The computer attempts to respond as a person would. So does the person. The interrogator must determine which is the computer in some allotted time. What is the Turing Test?

Question Answer AI-200 In 1956, this Stanford professor and co- founder of Artificial Intelligence coined the definition of AI as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.” Who is John McCarthy?

Question Answer AI-300 This 1970’s program, MYCIN, was a popular example of this branch of artificial intelligence. What is an expert system?

Question Answer AI-400 A particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of things that have existence. What is an ontology?

Question Answer AI-500 This form of artificial neural network has binary inputs and may serve as a content- addressable memory system. What is a Hopfield Net?

Question Answer This Stanford professor was the PhD advisor of one of the founders of Google, but he also wrote a famous textbook on databases. Who is Jeffrey Ullman? Databases-100

Question Answer Databases-200 This Microsoft researcher was awarded the Turing award for his work on transaction processing, but was tragically lost at sea last year. Who was Jim Gray?

Question Answer Databases-300 This was what some consider to be the first database product to use SQL and is one of IBM’s lines of relational database management systems. What is DB2?

Question Answer Databases-400 This is a technique for designing relational database tables to minimize duplication of information and, in so doing, to safeguard the database against certain types of logical or structural problems, namely data anomalies. What is database normalization?

Question Answer Databases-500 This LSU professor originally proposed the idea of Entity-Relationship diagrams in Who is Peter Chen?

Question Answer CS He is currently teaching CS201. Who is Dr. Bangalore?

Question Answer CS This is the default name of the method that starts a Java applet. What is “start”?

Question Answer CS This is the name of the class that represents the root of the Java class hierarchy. What is “Object”?

Question Answer CS This Java reserve word is used to indicate specification inheritance. What is “interface”?

Question Answer CS This tagging interface is used to indicate persistence. What is Serializable?

Question Answer HPC-100 This is the name of the computer that first beat Gary Kasparov. What is Deep Blue?

Question Answer HPC-200 This Rice professor, who was a pioneer in HPC, passed away last year. Who was Ken Kennedy?

Question Answer HPC-300 She is the first woman to be awarded the Turing Award, for her work for “Innovations to High Speed Computing.” Who is Francis Allen?

Question Answer HPC-400 According to the November 2007 report at this is the fastest computer in the world. What is IBM BlueGene/L?

Question Answer HPC-500 This is the name of the new language that Guy Steele is designing for HPC applications. What is Fortress?

Question Answer Programming Languages This language was the first to provide constructs for modularizing crosscutting concerns in Java. What is AspectJ?

Question Answer Programming Languages He is the “N” in BNF. Who is Peter Naur?

Question Answer Programming Languages This language is named after Lord Byron’s daughter. What is Ada?

Question Answer Programming Languages He was the first to win the Turing Award without having a PhD, with his major contribution being made in programming languages. Who was Robert Floyd?

Question Answer Programming Languages Gosling’s original name for Java before discovering it was already used. What is Oak?