CSE Trivia
The keyboard shortcut used to copy selected text or files.
What is Ctrl + C?
The full name of the person after whom the Allen School is named.
Who is Paul G. Allen?
The acronym COM2 stands for this.
What is "Computing Community"?
The name of the 24/7 underground convenience store run by COM2 in the Allen Center basement.
What is Snack Overflow?
You can sign up for this to receive regular email updates about COM2's events and initiatives.
What is the COM2 mailing list?
The company that developed the Windows operating system.
What is Microsoft?
The number of undergraduate students served by the Allen School (answers in the range of ±300 will be accepted).
What is 2300?
The chair of COM2.
Who is Kianna Bolante?
The name of COM2's mentorship program.
What is the COM2 Big/Little Mentorship Program?
The form we ask you to fill out before most events to help us gauge the resources and preparation needed.
What is the RSVP form?
The name of the programming language developed by Guido van Rossum that is widely used for web development, data analysis, and scientific computing.
What is Python?
The current director of the Allen School.
Who is Magda Balazinska?
The mission statement/general purpose of COM2.
What is "to make UW CSE feel like home"?
The theme of COM2's 2024 Fall Fest.
What is "Into the Galaxy"?
True or False: Our mentorship program accepts two cohorts each year.
What is True?
The name of the first widely-used web browser released in 1993.
What is Mosaic?
The decade during which the Allen School was founded and began offering graduate studies.
What are the 1960s? (Graduate studies started in 1967)
The previous name of COM2.
What is Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)?
Any event in COM2's upcoming career event series.
What is Evening with Industry, the Career Exploration Gala, or the Career Fair?
The two routes to becoming a COM2 officer.
What is being elected as an Executive Officer (occurs in April) or applying to be an Associate Officer (occurs in October).
The name of the computer pioneer who created the world's first compiler for a computer programming language and is often referred to as "Amazing Grace."
Who is Grace Hopper?
Which Turing Award laureate, known for his contributions to computational complexity theory, was a faculty member at the Paul G. Allen School from 1995 to 1999?
Who is Richard M. Karp?
The decade in which COM2 was established at UW.
What is the _s?
The athletic event that COM2 is hosting at the end of this month.
What is Dodgeball?
The payment method used to donate towards COM2 fundraisers.
What is Venmo @com2uw?