Degree Requirements Grab Bag
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Super CSSE
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CSSE at Rose
100

In your RHIT100 class, they recommend taking naps in this optimal amount of time similar to astronauts.

20 minutes

100

what expression is represented by the given Maxlaurin series expansion E(xn)

Write this one on the board

1/(1-x)

100

In pair programming we use these two words to describe the roles of each person. The one who codes, and the one who guides their partner.

The driver and navigator

100

This piece of technology just went out to market at a value of $3499 and introduced the idea of spatial computing.

Apple Vision Pro

100

This is the number of woman-identifying faculty in the CSSE department.

6

200

This aspect of genetics can introduce diversity or randomness into a population.

mutation

200

This is the general equation of a plane for which the points A,B,C exist.

A(x-x0) + B(y-y0) + C(z-z0)=0

200

In CSSE220 we use this kind of arrow to indicate inheritance (extends a class) Indicate the arrow as filled or unfilled and the line as dashed or undashed.

unfilled arrow, undashed line
200

After failing to make an agreement with TikTok, this company removed all the music in their catalogs from the app, making some tiktoks silent.

Warner Music Group

200

This is the number of professors that were in the department when it first began; much lower than the now 29 members (and growing!) in the department.

10

300

Use a logic gate configuration to make an OR gate [feel free to use the whiteboard]

and and not gate
300

Given an n × n matrix A this aspect of A, denoted det(A), is a number which encodes information about the matrix

determinant

300

In a height-balanced tree, you may have to execute this operation after an insertion or deletion to restore balance to the universe

rotation

300

This tech CEO recently made apologies to families in front of the US Congress for the harms that their children encountered while using a popular app.

Mark Zuckerberg

300

This is the percentage of woman-identifying students in the CSSE department as of the start of the Fall quarter

14%

400

In computer hardware design, we can use this strategy to enable the computer to run several instructions at different 'stages'

Pipelining

400

This kind of probability distribution gives the probability of an event happening a certain number of times within a given interval of time or space.

Poisson

400

This type of analysis gives a lower bound on the runtime on given portion of code.

Big Omega

400

This news company recently sued OpenAI, the company behind chatGPT for providing verbatim reports on news events that they keep behind their paywall.

The New York Times

400

Sometime in this decade, the CSSE department became its own entity separate from the ECE department.

The 1980's

500

Give the formula for the polytomic ion Thiocyanate

SCN-1

500

This combinatorial principle states that if n items are put into m containers, with n > m, then at least one container must contain more than one item.

Pigeon Hole Principle

500

This CSSE304 (PLC) concept allows people to 'time travel' through the execution of their code to change the past and bring the results to the present.

CallCC
500

This company is an alternative to Twitter. It started out as an invite-only service, bit will soon be open to the public. They also promote an idea of 'de-centralized' social media.

BlueSky

500

This was the location of the CSSE department when it first began.

Basement of Logan Library

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