AI/ML
Rutgers
Coding
Computer history
Software / Hardware
100

This term is used to describe the use and development of computer systems that are able to learn and adapt without following explicit instructions.

What is machine learning?

100

This is where you can go when you have questions on your resume or want help with preparing for an interview.

What is the Career Center?

100

In the world of computing, this numeral system uses only two digits to represent information.

What is Binary?

100

This machine was created in 1936 by a famous mathematician and computer scientist.

What is a Turing Machine?

100

In computer hardware, this component is responsible for temporarily storing data that the CPU is currently working with.

What is memory?

200

This computer program is a large language model-based chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched on November 30, 2022.

What is ChatGPT?

200

This is where we go when we have questions about problems we face on Rutgers's websites 

What is Rutgers IT help Desk?

200

Formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories, this programming language was created in the early 1970s by American Scientist Dennis M. Ritchie.

What is C?

200

This language was the first high-level programming language, created in the 1950s, which greatly influenced the development of subsequent programming languages and played a crucial role in the early history of computer programming.

What is Fortran?

200

A system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

What is an operating system?

300

The computer system was initially developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy! and in 2011, it competed on Jeopardy! against champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings.

What is IBM Watson?

300

Where we go to find internships and job opportunities.

What is Handshake?

300

In coding, when a variable is accessible and usable within a specific scope or block of code.

What is a variable scope?

300

The first computer program was created by this British mathematician, and she was often recognized for her work on the first programmable computer.

Who was Ada Lovelace?

300


What is a quantum computer?

400

Where students go when they need help in their classes.

What is tutoring center?

400

This complex algorithmic technique is often used to efficiently find the shortest path between nodes in a graph, and it has applications in areas like routing, network optimization, and more.

What is Dijkstra's algorithm?

400

In computer engineering, this key component of a computer, often referred to as the "brain" of the system, is responsible for executing instructions and performing calculations.

What is a CPU?

400

In computer technology, this device combines specialized hardware and software to create a simulated environment where users can interact with three-dimensional computer-generated objects.

What is virtual reality (VR)?

500

It is primarily concerned with giving computers the ability to support and manipulate speech. It involves processing natural language datasets, using either rule-based or probabilistic machine learning approaches.

What is natural language processing?

500

This is an opportunity available to all students, you need to reach out to one of the professors doing it.

What is research?

500

This famous sorting algorithm, named after a Hungarian-American computer scientist, is highly efficient and often used in practice.

What is a QuickSort algorithm?
500

In the early 1970s, two American cryptographers, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, introduced this groundbreaking concept in modern cryptography.

What is a public key?

500


What is an engima machine?

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