Women In Tech
She wrote the first algorithm intended for a machine, earning her the title of the world's first programmer.
In Python, this single character is used to start a comment.
#
This company owns both Instagram and WhatsApp.
Meta
The U of M mascot is this animal.
Bison
This fruit appears on the back of every Apple product.
An apple (with a bite taken out)
This mathematician coined the term 'computer bug' after finding a literal moth in a relay of the Harvard Mark II.
Grace Hopper
In most C-style languages, this keyword exits a loop immediately.
break
Twitter was acquired in 2022 by this billionaire and rebranded to this single letter.
Elon / X
WiCS stands for this.
Women in Computer Science
In the NATO phonetic alphabet, 'W' is represented by this word.
Whiskey
She and her team of 'human computers' at NASA calculated the orbital mechanics for John Glenn's historic 1962 flight.
Katherine Johnson
This Python keyword is used to define a generator function that yields values one at a time.
yield
This company, founded in 1994 as an online bookstore, is now one of the largest cloud computing providers in the world.
(Answer: Amazon)
Name the CS course at U of M that covers operating systems
3040,
This 1999 movie features a character who discovers their entire reality is a simulation — relevant for CS students.
The Matrix
This Egyptian-American scientist co-invented Wi-Fi security (WEP) and holds over 30 patents in wireless communication.
Hedy Lamarr
In JavaScript, this method creates a new array populated with the results of calling a function on every element.
.map()
This company was originally called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" before being renamed.
Yahoo
This network is where CS students most often submit assignments (2nd year and higher)
Aviary
Wordle was bought by this major newspaper in 2022.
The New York Times
She became the first woman to win the Turing Award (in 2006), recognized for her work on formal verification and abstraction.
Frances Allen (first female IBM Fellow/Turing Award winner)
In regex, this quantifier matches 'one or more' of the preceding element.
+
Before it was called ____ , this search engine had the working name "Backrub.
Answer: Google
This annual U of M tradition recognizes outstanding student involvement and contributions on campus.
Student Life Awards / President's Student Leadership Award — accept any valid award
This programming language shares its name with a tropical island in Indonesia and is used to make your web pages interactive.
Java (JavaScript) — accept either