CS History
Alan Turing made major contributions to ending WWII by cracking this code used by the Germans.
What is the Enigma Code?
This is the name of a professor who is a part of PACE’s team:
Who is
Mia Minnes?
Joe Politz?
Kristen Vaccaro?
These are the names of 5 LPMs/staff who have graduated or are graduating this year
Who are
Andrew?
Charisse?
Sonia?
Josh ?
Gowtham?
Sam ?
Yuan?
Peter ?
Samvrit ?
This sister park of the San Diego Zoo and is located in Escondido.
What is the SD Zoo Safari Park?
This is the name of the default "Office Assistant" that appeared in Microsoft's Office suite of software, beginning with Windows 97.
What is Clippy/Clippit?
This Dutch computer scientist developed the concept of “structured programming” and is famous for his algorithm that finds the shortest path in a weighted graph.
Who is Edsger Dijkstra?
This is the name of a professor who is a part of the UGComm team:
Who is
Michael Coblenz?
Russell Impagliazzo?
Deepak Kumar?
Mia Minnes?
Pat Pannuto?
Joseph Politz?
Aaron Schulman?
This is the theme of the LPM Posters in the PACE room
What is Pokemon/Trading cards?
This UCSD College has the former name “Fourth College”
What is Warren College?
Unicode, the standard for character encoding used to represent multilingual text as binary, is the successor of this US encoding standard.
What is ASCII?
This MIT professor is known as the “Father of AI” and coined the term “artificial intelligence” in 1956.
Who is John McCarthy?
This is the name of a professor who has music videos posted on youtube
Who is
Miles Jones?
Ranjit Jhala ?
Nadia Polikarpova?
These are the names of 4 restaurants that CSE-PACE has ordered food from
What are
Domino’s?
Panda?
Chipotle?
Santorini?
Croutons?
Minerva’s (Crafted)?
Zanzibar?
The Triton Statue at Price Center was unveiled in this decade.
What is the 2000s (2008)?
Benedict Cumberbatch played computer science legend Alan Turing in this 2014 film.
What is The Imitation Game?
In 1997, this model by IBM became the first computer to beat a champion in chess.
What is Deep Blue?
Name a professor who joined the CSE department within the last 3 years:
Who is
Trevor Bonjour?
Deepak Kumar?
Raj Ammanabrolu?
Yufei Ding?
Qipeng Liu?
Lianhui Qin?
Loris D’Antoni?
This is the hidden code from the CSE-PACE IG Story this week.
What is “Take space, make space”?
This aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum in downtown San Diego.
What is the USS Midway?
This is a software or hardware component that stores data so future requests for the data can be served faster.
What is a Cache?
This is the full expansion of “ENIAC”, the name of one of the first electronic computers.
What is Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer?
This is the name of a professor whose spouse is also faculty at a university.
Who is
Mia Minnes?
Todd Kemp?
Ndapa Nakashole?
Alex Snoeren?
Christine Alvarado?
This is the name of an LPM who has graduated or is graduating this academic year and is returning next year for their Masters
Who is
Peter (BSMS)?
Samvrit (BSMS)?
This was one of the potential mascots (other than the Triton) considered during UCSD’s founding.
What are the
Dolphins?
Barracudas?
Grizzly Bears?
Hornets?
This cybersecurity system is designed to lure cyber-attackers away from important targets and potentially give insight into attackers’ attacks.
What is a Honeypot?