Open Source
According to the Battery Open Source Software Index (BOSS), it's the most economically important open source project with a market value is $16million USD.
What is Linux?
Born in the Netherlands in 1930, this theoretical physicist famously quoted that "...software engineering, of course, presents itself as another worthy cause, but that is eyewash".
Who is Edsger Dijkstra?
This sensor is used to sense movement in a Mobile device.
What is a Accelerometer?
I hate to break it to you - the Firefox logo isn't actually a fox... it's this endangered animal.
What is a red panda?
First surfacing in 2010, this malware is believed to have targeted and severely crippled Iran's nuclear program.
What is Stuxnet?
He's the founder of the Free Software Foundation and launched the GNU Project.
Who is Richard Stallman?
One of the earliest women who earned a doctorate of computer science in the US, her substitution principle describes the fundamental nature of data abstraction, used in type theory and object-oriented programming.
Who is Barbara Liskov?
In 1983, this company paved the way for smartphone manufacturing companies by creating the first portable phone called DynaTAC 8000X.
Who is Motorola?
How's your poker face? From 1889-1956, Nintendo didn't sell video games or consoles. Instead, they primarily sold these.
What is playing cards?
Code blue! Code blue! This security bug was a serious flaw in OpenSSL, announced by computer security researchers on April 7, 2014.
What is Heartbleed?
This Finnish-American entrepreneur behind Linux gave his approval of the term Open Source only a week after it's introduction in 1998.
Who is Linus Torvalds ?
In the 1930s, this English mathematician developed the idea for a universal machine named after him - the basis for the first computer.
Who is Alan Turing?
First appearing in 1984, it's a language used to develop iPhone apps.
What is Objective-C?
Designed in 1976, the first Apple logo featured this famous mathematician sitting beneath a tree, with an apple about to fall on his head. Ouch.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
Tom, how could you? This social media site hit headlines in 2016 after 360 million user accounts were leaked and put for sale on the dark web with an asking price of 6 bitcoin.
What is MySpace?
What's the theme again? Create and host a free website using this popular open source content management system.
What is WordPress?
While he's well known for writing "Clean Code" books, he's most recognized for being a founder of the Agile Manifesto.
Who is Robert C. Martin?
It is one of the mobile communication standards that is marketed as a 4G technology (first offered by Verizon)
What is LTE (Long Term Evolution)?
In the 1960s, Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse, which was made out of this porous material.
It's a collection of tools and technologies that protects, restricts, and monitors employee access to a company's vital data, and it was compromised in Uber's 2022 security breach.
What is Privileged Access Management (PAM)?
It's the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works.
What is Copyleft?
Remember COBOL? She indirectly influenced it's development, having created the FLOW-MATIC programming language, but only after joining the Navy Reserves.
Who is Grace Murray Hopper?
It is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity (usually no more than a few centimeters).
What is Near Field Communication (NFC)?
In 2010, the United States Air Force used 1,760 of these consoles to build a supercomputer called the Condor Cluster for the Department of Defense.
What is the PlayStation 3?
It was the opposite of a religious experience when 700million LinkedIn records were leaked by a popular hacker in 2021, who went by this unholy moniker.
Who is GOD User (TomLiner)?