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Hull Uni Computer Science Department First Year Quiz

Hull Uni's Department of Computer Science has a First Year quiz, in which if you return all 20 correct answeres by the 10^th^ of October, you can win a �20 book voucher..will the joy never end?

Here are the answers (e-mail me if there are any falsities):

  • IPR

Intellectual Property Rights

RIPA

Regulation of Investigatory Powers

ISP

Internet Service Provider

SQL

Structured Query Language.

  • Intel 4004.

  • Lisa.

The more well known LISA is a programming environment, and not a language; however there is an open source project which uses Lisa as the name for its interpreted programming language.

  • BUNCH

"Bunoughs, Univac, NCR, Centrue Data, Honeywell"

Being direct competitors to IBM (aka Big Blue), they opposed the corporation.

  • The first "computer bug", was in fact a real bug, a moth found trapped between points at Relay # 70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, on the 9^th^ of September 1945.

  • Oak was the original name for the Java Programming Language by Sun Microsystems.

  • In binary, "10 + 14 = 100" equates to "4 + 4 = 8" in decimal.

  • "10 + 10 = 20", "'10' + '10' = '1010'", if 10 is a variable name then the solution would be twice the value 10 was set to.

  • The input device known as the mouse.

  • UML

Or the Unified Modeling Language is a language for blueprinting software for construction, while the other options are document markup languages for marking up data for viewing (for example including formatting or semantic information).

  • Ada Lovelace

Assistant to Charles Babbage, considered to be the first programmer.

Alan Turing

Famous for cryptography during WW2, in which he helped crack, amongst others, the German Enigma code, he was noted later in life for his work on digital computing and artificial intelligence (birthing the Turing Test for AI).

Tim Berners-Lee

Released specifications, and later code, for what is now the World Wide Web.

Niklaus Wirth

Created the PASCAL programming language and mathematical MODULA programming language.

Lnius Torvalds

Creator of the open source operating system, LINUX.

Bjarne Soustrup

Created the C++ programming language.

  • Kermit is a networking implementation for transfering files between diverse PC platforms, this allowed for communication between different PC's during the early 80's which lead to Internet development and use.

  • The Beowulf computer clustering and parallel processing architecture is a method for connecting together multiple processors and resources (i.e. memory) as one environment, spreading tasks out over the interconnected resources; it takes its name from the old Scandinavian tale of the nobleman Beowulf, who in the tale defeated monster Grendel. The architecture was named after the tale because the first clustering of this type was named Beowulf by its creators, Thomas Sterling and Don Becker at NASA.

  • Crystal and Eliza are two of the more well known programs designed as basic AI's, to attempt to interact with the computer user and fool them into thinking they are talking to a real human.

  • MP3, or MPEG Layer 3, is a format based on the MPEG compression format, which stands for "Moving Picture Experts Group".

  • 6800 and 8086 are two different computer processor architectures, 8086 is the most commonly used CPU architecture today with most PC manufacturers using CPU's extended on the x86 line; The Intel 8086 architecture when originally released could make use of Motorola 6800 components.

  • WIMP

Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing device; the paradigm used by most modern graphical user systems, since Xerox produced the Xerox Star GUI in 1981, and later in 1984 when Apple used the paradigm in their Mac operating system's GUI.

  • The MS Blaster worm attempted to shut down the Microsoft Windows Update website, and causing damage to Windows users a long the way, in August 2003, taking advantage of an unpatched RPC vulnerability in the operating system.

Also in August 2003, the Sobig.F virus spread itself across the net causing mayhem by sending out bucket loads of spam, propogating itself at such a rate that it became one of the most widespread virii to date.

  • Sir Isaac Newton is known for having observed an apple fall to the ground, inspiring him to investigate the function of gravity, giving us the basis for all later work on the physics of gravity.

Apple used to produce a portable computer, called the Newton.

  • BBN are the company originally given the contract to build Arpanet, the military precursor to the Internet, and have since been involved in Internet development; with this earlier work, and work since, the World Wide Web could not have evolved as a method of data distribution using the Internet as a carrier.