EISA
Question: What does the acronym EISA stand for?
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August 7th, 2008
What's in a name?
Question: According to Elsevier's Dictionary of Personal and Office Computing, what's the French word for computer?
- ordinateur
- computeur
- rechenanlage
- pomme
August 5th, 2008
High tech
Question: What is the high-tech community's nickname for the Willamette Valley Corridor?
- The Silicon Forest
- Silicon Alley
- Silicon Valley
- Teletubbyland
August 4th, 2008
Darkest Peru
Question: One of the earliest forms of mechanical information storage was an ancient Peruvian device consisting of a cord with knotted strings of various colors attached, used for recording events, keeping accounts, etc. What was the device called?
- a quipu
- an atahualpa
- a picchu
- a calculator
August 3rd, 2008
Checkmate
Question: Who said, "Computers are getting faster and programmers are doing a better job. It is just a matter of time before a computer becomes chess champion. But so what? … A computer doesn't think when it plays tic-tac-toe, and it doesn't think when it plays chess."
- Gary Kasparov
- Nicholas Negroponte
- Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs
August 2nd, 2008
Not on the Post Office wall
Question: Whose portrait is a composite image of 75 women's faces created on a computer?
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August 1st, 2008
Spam, wonderful Spam
Question: Spamming means to send the same message to many newsgroups or e-mail addresses. The term derives from:
- programmers at the Chicago stockyards
- the fact that spam is 'maps' spelled backwards
- a Monty Python sketch
- you just can't get enough "potted meat product"
July 31st, 2008
It's not a bug—it's a feature
Question: According to Microsoft, Adam Baratz was the youngest beta tester for Windows 95. How old was he in 1994?
- 3 years old
- 6 years old
- 9 years old
- 12 years old
July 30th, 2008
Cyber sleuth
Question: Security expert Tsutomu Shimomura is known for tracking down an alleged cyberthief. Who?
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July 29th, 2008