MSIS Program
Total required units to graduate from MSIS program?
What is 11 units?
TV show that inspired the R&D and market introduction of cell phones, universal translators, and tablet computers?
What is Star Trek?
The name given to a basic binary unit?
What is a bit?
The Chicago Bulls and Chicago Blackhawks play here.
What is the United Center?
Northwestern University has campuses in Chicago, Evanston, San Francisco, Miami, Washington DC., and in this location.
Where is Doha, Qatar?
This Hall houses the School of Professional Studies and the MSIS program.
What is Wieboldt Hall?
Apple introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer in this year.
When is 1984?
The two patterns that make up the binary system?
What is 0 and 1?
This technology company bought the iconic Thompson Center in downtown Chicago.
What is Google?
This purple and white quartzite boulder has been used by NU students as a makeshift billboard since 1902.
What is The Rock?
Students take six of these courses in the MSIS program.
What are electives?
This software issue involving the format of calendar dates caused a scare in 1999.
What is Y2K?
A sequence of numbers used to simplify sequences of bits?
What is Hexadecimal?
This is a well known sculpture shaped liked a food in Chicago.
What is "The Bean"?
This NU graduate holds the NFL record for highest winning percentage among quarterbacks with at least 50 starts.
Who is Otto Graham?
Number of specializations in MSIS program.
What is 8?
File sharing software named after creator Shawn Fanning's Frizzy hair.
What is Napster?
Taking measurements at intervals when digitizing sound.
What is sampling?
The tallest building in Chicago?
What is the Willis (Sears) Tower?
This famous NU graduate was best known for his role as a paleontologist where he hung with his friends at Central Perk.
Who is David Schwimmer?
He is the premier database and networking aficionado.
Dr. Faisal Akkawi
First web browser publicly available.
What is NCSA Mosaic?
Changing a response to use fewer bits to store information.
What is compression?
The Great Chicago Fire occurred in this year, which is also the name of Chicago's primary non-profit digital strategy incubator.
What is 1871?
Known for its seasonal beauty, one may compare this NU garden's bouquet to a Midsummer Night's Dream.
What is Shakespeare Garden?