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Where in the world are Shantanu and Madeline?
The Cyber File Cabinet
The Fake Brain
Computers without Borders
100
This type of network refers to short-range communication between smaller, personal devices.
What is a PAN (Personal Area Network)?
100
This is the full name for G.P.S.
What is Global Positioning System?
100
This term refers to a collection of fields related to each other through a singular object.
What is a record?
100
This hardware device mirrors human capabilities by carrying out a series of complex actions automatically.
What is a robot?
100
This term refers to the outsourcing of information processing to the Internet.
What is cloud computing?
200
This function allows you to type and talk simultaneously.
What are asynchronous communcations?
200
This device uses a unique serial number that enables it to be tracked by a user.
What is an RFID tag?
200
This software is used mostly in large industries and companies to organize vast collections of data.
What is Database Management Software?
200
This test is used to determine whether a machine contains intelligence.
What is the Turing Test?
200
This digit is represented by the ASCII code "0011001."
What is "1"?
300
This organization is the first known creator of the Internet.
What is DARPA?
300
This method is used to determine the location of device using overhead satellites.
What is trilateration?
300
This protocol language is used to program complex searches in databases.
What is Structured Query Language (SQL)?
300
This software is used by computers to perform tasks within a narrow domain similar to human professionals.
What is an expert system?
300
This Web 2.0 application allows users to create, edit and share Internet-based documents.
What is Google Docs?
400
This term refers to the ability of cell phones to connect to cell towers using different identification codes.
What is Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)?
400
This organization was the original developer of GPS.
What is the United States Department of Defense?
400
This programming language, developed in Bell Labs in 1979, allows for basic programming in addition to object-oriented features.
What is C++?
400
This part of a robotic device carries out the physical function of a program.
What is the actuator?
400
Some intel and AMD chips come with or support this feature to enable cross-platform capabilities.
What is virtualization?
500
This Internet tag denotes a web page in the international domain.
What is .INT?
500
This aspect of Google Earth has caused concerns about privacy, forcing Google to blur images, e.g.
What is Street View?
500
This official code enlists the prohibition of secret government databases/
What is the Code of Fair Information Practices?
500
This term refers to the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence.
What is the Technological Singularity?
500
This program is required for Java to function properly on a computer.
What is the Java Virtual Machine?
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