Famous Technologists
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Coding and Such
Buzzwords
100

He is popularly known for creating the iPhone.

Steve Jobs

100

This is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software -- over the Internet to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.

The Cloud (or Cloud Computing)

100

This is an ExxonMobil developed application used for process equipment design and rating, project development, plant optimization and troubleshooting. It incorporates ExxonMobil-proprietary Design Practices for calculation methodologies and equipment design criteria.

Pegasys (or Pegasys#)

100

This is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Over 97% of websites use it on the client side for web page behavior.

JavaScript

100

A system in which a record of transactions made in bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are maintained across several computers that are linked in a peer-to-peer network.

blockchain

200

He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.

Alan Turing

200

This is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity.

Big O notation

200

He is an American engineer and energy executive who served as the 69th U.S. secretary of state from February 1, 2017, to March 31, 2018.

Rex Tillerson

200

This programming statement evaluates a logical expression and, if the logical expression is true, it executes a set of statements.

IF statement

200

The interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.

synergy

300

An American computer scientist and United States Navy admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. She was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create the COBOL programming language.

Grace Hopper

300

Also known as K8s, it is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Kubernetes

300

ExxonMobil was ultimately descended from this company, founded by John D Rockefeller, in December 15 1870.

Standard Oil Company

300

This is a tree data structure in which each node has at most two children, which are usually referred to as the left child and the right child.

binary tree

300

An adjustment or modification made (as to a product, service, or strategy) in order to adapt or improve.

pivot

400

She was an English mathematician and writer. She was the first to recognize that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation and is often regarded as the first computer programmer.

Ada Lovelace

400

This computer system scaling concept adds more instances of machines without first implementing improvements to existing specifications.

horizontal scaling

400

These are 3 of ExxonMobil's core values (Name any 3).

Any 3 of the following: Integrity, Care, Courage, Excellence, Resilience

400

To understand recursion, you must first understand __________.

recursion

400

A ratio between net income and investment.

return on investment (or ROI)

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