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In 2024 Google retired the name Bard and rebranded its AI chatbot as this.
What is Gemini?
Deceptive emails that trick you into giving up passwords or clicking bad links.
What is phishing?
The text you input to tell a generative AI what to do.
What is a prompt?
Markus “Notch” Persson created this sandbox game, which Microsoft bought in 2014 for about $2.5 billion.
What is Minecraft?
She wrote what’s considered the first computer algorithm, for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Google’s name is a play on this word for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
What is googol?
The theme of this year's hackathon, hosted by HackRPI.
What is In the Clouds?
When an AI confidently states something that is simply false.
What is a hallucination?
This actor, best known for Guardians of the Galaxy, voiced Mario in 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
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Women make up roughly this fraction of the global tech workforce.
What is 25-30%?
This Alphabet company began in 2009 as Google’s self-driving car project and now runs robotaxis in more than 10 U.S. cities.
What is Waymo?
Adding a second proof of identity, like a phone code, on top of your password.
When a model memorizes its training data and then performs poorly on new data.
What is overfitting?
Along with Unity, this Epic Games engine is one of the most widely used. It powers Fortnite.
What is Unity?
In 1942, actress Hedy Lamarr co-patented a frequency-hopping system. Today the same idea helps this wireless tech connect your phone to your earbuds.
What is Bluetooth?
More than 80% of Google searches now show this AI-written summary above the usual links.
What is AI overview?
In October 2026, two critical remote code execution flaws leaked early in this decades-old scripting language, and sites around the world went offline while it was patched.
What is PHP?
Abbreviated RAG, this technique lets a model look up outside documents before it answers.
What is retrieval-augmented generation?
Games built in Unity are scripted mainly in this Microsoft-created language.
What is C#?
There are rumored to be this many women majoring in Computer Science in RPI's class of 2030.
What is 6?
Google unveiled the Pixel 11 phones at its Made by Google event in this city on August 12, 2026.
What is New York City?
TreeHacks is hosted by this California university.
What is Stanford?
This 1950 test checks whether a machine can converse well enough to be mistaken for a human.
What is the Turing Test?
This 1972 Atari game is considered the first big commercial arcade hit.
What is Pong?
This annual gathering, billed as the largest for women technologists, was canceled in October 2026, two weeks before it was due to open in Anaheim.
What is the Grace Hopper Celebration?