CS at Davidson
Women in CS and Tech
CS in the Media
Where?
Acronyms
100
What is the name of the building behind Watson?
Dana
100
The world’s largest gathering of women technologists that occurs every Fall is named after who?
Grace Hopper
100
Name the 2020 Netflix documentary that explores the dangerous human impact of social networking.
The Social Dilemma
100
Where is Amazon's headquarters located (this is where Jeff Bezos office is)? (city and state)
Seattle, WA
100
CD-ROM
Compact Disk Read Only Memory
200
What are the four core classes that are required for the CS major at Davidson?
Data Structures, Discrete, Computer Organization, Algorithms
200
Who is credited as the world's first computer programmer?
Ada Lovelace.
Lovelace drafted plans for how a machine called the Analytical Engine could perform computations.
200
What social media platform is the movie The Social Network about?
200
Some of the largest computer brands (including Apple, Microsoft, and HP) started in this...
A garage
200
SIM
Subscriber Identity Module
300
Name four tenured Math or CS professors at Davidson.
Acceptable Answers: Chartier, Heyer, Kuchera, Mendes, Molinek, Peck, Ramanujan, Smith, Wiedenbeck, Yerger, Zhuang
300
What percentage of Silicon Valley executives are female? (+/- 5%)
11%
300
What was Amazon’s original name? Hint: Jeff Bezos had to rename it to Amazon.com after a few months because a lawyer misheard it as “cadaver.”
Cadabra, Inc.
300
Which large technology does this headquarters belong to? 
Apple
300
HDMI
High Definition Multimedia Interface
400
Who is giving this week's Math/CS Coffee Talk?
Neidinger
400
Susan Wojcicki is the current CEO of what company?
YouTube
400
Who is the English mathematician that tries to crack the German Enigma code in the movie The Imitation Game?
Alan Turig
400
A student at what college created the modern day social media platform Facebook?
Harvard
400
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
500
What is the name of the society you join upon declaring the Computer Science major?
Bernard Society (it's on the major declaration form!)
500
In 2014, who became the first female chief technology officer in the US? (She was an executive at google prior to this position!)
Megan Smith
500
Name (at least) two of the three women at NASA that serve as the brains behind the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit (Hint: from the movie Hidden Figures).
Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson
500
Where was the first Grace Hopper Conference held in 1994?
Washington, DC
500
PNG
Portable Network Graphics