This was one of the first 32-bit microprocessors, introduced in 1985. The first versions had 275,000 transistors and were the CPU of many workstations and high-end personal computers of the time
What is the i386
100
this video game software is on record as having generated the most revenue (143 million paid downloads) of all multi-platform games, ever...
What is Tetris
100
The practice of creating unauthorized applications and disguising them as ones with legitimate connections to the database
What is spoofing
100
This was the first of a range of popular and influential computers, implementing a LSI chip and using 32-bit complex instruction set, first produced and released in 1970 by Digital Equipment Corporation
What is a PDP-11
100
There are ~ 1,000,000 bytes in a Megabyte (MB) -
and there are ~ 1,000,000,000 bytes in a Gigabyte (BG) -
but what makes up a "nibble"
What is 4 bits
200
Intel named the latest chip in there product line the "Pentium" for this reason
What is - the 5th generation in the products development
200
William H. Inmon (born 1945) is an American computer scientist, recognized as the father of this technology...
He wrote the first book, held the first conference, wrote the first column in a magazine and was the first to offer classes and created the accepted definition...
What is Data Warehousing
200
The transformation of a string of characters into a usually shorter fixed-length value or key that represents the original string and is also used in many encryption algorithms
What is Hashing
200
This was the world's first commercially produced electronic digital computer, released in 1951
What is the Univac
200
This game system was the first to offer online gaming
What is DreamCast
300
They held a birthday party at the University of Illinois for this famed movie supercomputer, twice - once in 1992 and again in 1997
What is HAL
300
Google's BigTable/MapReduce and Amazon's Dynamo are two of the most popular
As of July 2015, popularity extends to include MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, Redis, Solr, ElasticSearch, HBase, Splunk, Memcached, and Neo4j
What are "NoSQL" Data Stores
300
This is a protocol specified in the Wi-Fi standard that is designed to provide a WLAN with a level of security and privacy comparable to what is usually expected of a wired LAN
What is WEP
300
These computers were the standard for all space shuttle orbiters built
What is the IBM AP-101 (essentially a System 360)
300
This file-sharing software was named for creator Shawn Fanning’s frizzy hair
What is Napster
400
Early Apple computers did not use the popular intel chips - instead they went with this chip in all their PCs
What is Motorola 68000 series
(68000, 68020, 68030, etc)
400
Of a Boeing 787, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and Mercedes Benz S-class, this one has the most lines of code on board
What is the Mercedes S class (100 million lines of code)
The Boeing 787 has 6.5 million
The F-35 has 1.7 million
400
According to a significant study, which was conducted by monitoring a global network of more than 30,000 servers world wide, this country was the initiating source for over 30% of all security attacks world wide
What is Japan
400
this was the best selling personal computer of all time
What is the Commodore 64
400
This chess-playing computer was developed by IBM and successfully defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in chess in 1997
What is Deep Blue
500
The A6X is a 32 bit microprocessor used exclusively in this device
What is the iPad
500
This language boasts the most actively used code base in the world today with over 220 billion lines of code in existence, a figure which equates to about 80 per cent of the world’s actively used code.
What is COBOL
There are 200 times as many Cobol transactions that take place each day than Google searches.
500
This is a type of software that allows a hacker to remotely take control of a computer while avoiding detection
What is a RootKit
500
This is the the world's fastest computer, with a performance of 33.86 petaflops - quadrillions of calculations per second based on the Linpack benchmark - running today
What is the Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China's National University of Defense Technology
500
Before Microsoft Excel and Lotus 1-2-3, THIS was the dominant spreadsheet application...