TUFTS CS PROFESSORS
This professor is in a barbershop quartet.
Who is Richard Townsend?
Computers use this system, while humans typically use the base-10 system for counting, likely due to having ten fingers.
What is binary?
In bowling, three strikes in a row is called what?
What is a turkey?
This is an acryonym for a web vulnerability allowing for the injection of malicious scripts.
What is XXS (Cross-Site Scripting)?
This is the most common and least secure password used worldwide.
What is 123456?
This professor is an acclaimed ballroom dancer.
Who is Mark Sheldon?
This term, popularized in the 1940s, originated when engineers found a moth causing a malfunction in a computer at Harvard University.
What is a computer bug?
What is the largest internal organ in the human body
What is the liver?
This is an acronym that stands for a type of attack that overwhelms a service with traffic.
What is DDoS (Distributes Denial of Service)?
This is the first known computer virus.
What is creeper?
This professor is a secret electric bass player.
Who is Noah Mendelson?
This term refers to the fact that around 90% of all data ever created was generated in just the last two years.
What is big data?
What is the only plant in our solar system that rotates clockise on its axis?
What is Venus?
What is a user interface that uses icons and a mouse?
What is a GUI (Graphical User Interface)?
What are finance, healthcare, and education?
This professor is a self-proclaimed "personal finance guru".
Who is Megan Monroe?
Who is often considered the first computer programmer for writing algorithms for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in the 1800s.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
What term describes a group os flamingos?
What is a flamboyance?
This acronym stands for the main memory used by computers for temporary data storage.
What is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
This is the most common cyber threat, responsible for 85% of data breaches and security incidents.
What is human error?
This professor was a season ticket holder for Boston University Men’s Ice Hockey for a whole decade.
Who is Ming Chow?
This 1997 IBM computer made headlines when it defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
What is Deep Blue?
What country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
What is Ethiopia?
This acronym stands for the secure version of the protocol used to transmit data between a web browser and a website, using encryption via TLS or SSL to protect the privacy and integrity of the exchanged information.
What is HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)?
A cybercrime business model where one criminal gang sells code or malware to other hackers, who then use it to carry out cyberattacks.
What is Ransomware as a Service (RaaS)?