Web Dev
This HTTP method is typically used to send data to a server, like submitting a form.
POST
What does SQL stand for?
Structured Query Language
In this kind of ML approach, we provide the algorithm or agent with correct targets or labels when training
Supervised Learning
This AI model, released by OpenAI in October 2025, marked a leap in video generation
Sora (OpenAI video model, released Oct 2025)
How many stories is the Du Bois Library?
At 28 stories, the Du Bois Library is the tallest university library in the world.
This keyword in JavaScript declares a block-scoped variable and is preferred over var
let
This No-SQL database can store data in flexible JSON-ified data documents. Hint: MERN/MEAN
MongoDB
This ML algorithm uses its surrounding instances to classify into a group
K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)
This company acquired GitHub in 2018, integrating its assistant tools into its ecosystem
Microsoft
What was Umass Amherst originally called?
The Massachusetts Agricultural College,
This Microsoft‑developed framework supports multiple programming languages like C# and F#, and is widely used for building scalable web APIs, enterprise apps, and cloud‑ready backends.
.NET Framework
This relational database from Oracle is widely used in enterprises and supports PL/SQL.
Oracle DB
This type of ML is used when the agent learns by interacting with an environment and receiving rewards.
Reinforcement Learning
This open‑source operating system kernel, created by Linus Torvalds in 1991
Linux
What is the Undergraduate acceptance rate for Computer Science at UMass Amherst?
30-33%
This JavaScript runtime tool, is often used for backend development. Hint: NPM
Node.js
This SQL feature lets you define a temporary named result set that can be referenced in a larger query, often used to simplify complex joins or aggregations.
Common Table Expression (CTE)
This type of regularization techniques squares the coefficient estimates to penalize large weights
L2 Regularization / Ridge Regression
What is the name of Anthropic's AI Assistant?
Claude (by Anthropic)
Name of the cafe in the CS building
Snack Overflow
A __ can be considered a unit block of Angular's UI structure, and can be generated using the Angular CLI
Component
This cloud data warehouse offers “time travel” for up to 90 days and uses virtual warehouses to separate compute from storage
Snowflake
This recursive algorithm expresses the value of an MDP state in terms of the expected rewards we would get from taking the best action
Bellman Equation / Value Iteration
This AI company launched a model called “Gemini,” directly competing with OpenAI’s GPT models. Hint: Google ______?
Google DeepMind
Name all the 5 UMass campuses in the country
The five University of Massachusetts (UMass) campuses are UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth, UMass Lowell, and UMass Medical School in Worcester.