Computer Science
This programming language, abbreviated as SQL, is commonly used to find data in databases.
What is Structured Query Language?
This was the name of our most recent event. (Not including this one!)
This coffee shop, started in Quincy, MA, is a cultural staple in New England.
What is Dunkin'?
This animal is the Boston University mascot and also the state dog of Massachusetts.
What is a Boston Terrier?
This computer scientist helped develop the software that powered NASA's Apollo moon missions.
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
This data structure consists of vertices connected by edges.
What is a graph?
This BU GWC program introduces younger students to coding and computer science.
What is Bits & Bytes?
This is a common type of coffee bean, or a programming language.
What is Java?
The room number of the Math Advising office of CDS (next to the CS office), or the area code for Boston.
What is 617?
Microsoft released the first version of this graphical operating environment in 1985.
What is Windows?
This is the largest digit in the hexadecimal system.
What is F?
What is the Cross-College Mixer?
This espresso drink takes its name from the Italian word for "stained" or "marked."
This BU alumnus received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This 1980s arcade game features your character being chased by 4 enemies, each of which with a different AI behavior.
What is Pac Man?
This data structure follows the Last In, First Out principle.
What is the stack?
This former congressional candidate founded Girls Who Code.
Who is Reshma Saujani?
This traditional New England beverage, made without coffee, was popularized as a coffee drink by Starbucks.
What is a Frappe?
This holiday, celebrated with math puns and baked goods, is also the birthday (charter day) of CAS.
What is Pi Day? (March 14th)
This video game company, founded in 1889, originally manufactured playing cards.
What is Nintendo?
This famous unsolved problem asks whether every problem whose solution can be verified in polynomial time can also be solved in polynomial time.
What is P vs. NP?
This year, also the year that the Summer Olympics were held in London, was the year that Girls Who Code was started.
What is 2012?
Coffee beans are the seeds of this type of fruit (albeit a bit of a misnomer).
What are cherries?
This abbreviation of Boston's Historic Dorchester Avenue reminisces the "Comm Ave" abbreviation of Commonwealth Avenue.
What is Dot Ave?
This American computer scientist coined the term "artificial intelligence" in 1955.
Who is John McCarthy?