Transcript Science Jeopardy - Computer and Information Sciences

CS Jeopardy!
February 2008
AI
Databases
CS 201
HPC
Programming
Languages
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AI-100
• A test in which a remote human interrogator
communicates with a computer and with a
person. The computer attempts to respond
as a person would. So does the person. The
interrogator must determine which is the
computer in some allotted time.
• What is the Turing Test?
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AI-200
• In 1956, this Stanford professor and cofounder of Artificial Intelligence coined
the definition of AI as “the science and
engineering of making
intelligent
machines.”
• Who is John McCarthy?
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AI-300
• This 1970’s program, MYCIN, was a
popular example of this branch of
artificial intelligence.
• What is an expert system?
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AI-400
• A particular theory about the nature of
being or the kinds of things that have
existence.
• What is an ontology?
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AI-500
• This form of artificial neural network has
binary inputs and may serve as a contentaddressable memory system.
• What is a Hopfield Net?
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Databases-100
• This Stanford professor was the PhD
advisor of one of the founders of Google,
but he also wrote a famous textbook on
databases.
• Who is Jeffrey Ullman?
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Databases-200
• This Microsoft researcher was awarded
the Turing award for his work on
transaction processing, but was tragically
lost at sea last year.
• Who was Jim Gray?
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Databases-300
• This was what some consider to be the
first database product to use SQL and is
one of IBM’s lines of relational database
management systems.
• What is DB2?
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Databases-400
• This is a technique for designing
relational database tables to minimize
duplication of information and, in so
doing, to safeguard the database against
certain types of logical or structural
problems, namely data anomalies.
• What is database normalization?
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Databases-500
• This LSU professor originally proposed
the idea of Entity-Relationship diagrams
in 1976.
• Who is Peter Chen?
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CS 201-100
• He is currently teaching CS201.
• Who is Dr. Bangalore?
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CS 201-200
• This is the default name of the method
that starts a Java applet.
• What is “start”?
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CS 201-300
• This is the name of the class that
represents the root of the Java class
hierarchy.
• What is “Object”?
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CS 201-400
• This Java reserve word is used to indicate
specification inheritance.
• What is “interface”?
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CS 201-500
• This tagging interface is used to indicate
persistence.
• What is Serializable?
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HPC-100
• This is the name of the computer that
first beat Gary Kasparov.
• What is Deep Blue?
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HPC-200
• This Rice professor, who was a pioneer in
HPC, passed away last year.
• Who was Ken Kennedy?
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HPC-300
• She is the first woman to be awarded the
Turing Award, for her work for
“Innovations to High Speed Computing.”
• Who is Francis Allen?
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HPC-400
• According to the November 2007 report
at www.top500.org, this is the fastest
computer in the world.
• What is IBM BlueGene/L?
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HPC-500
• This is the name of the new language that
Guy Steele is designing for HPC
applications.
• What is Fortress?
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Programming Languages - 100
• This language was the first to provide
constructs for modularizing crosscutting
concerns in Java.
• What is AspectJ?
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Programming Languages - 200
• He is the “N” in BNF.
• Who is Peter Naur?
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Programming Languages - 300
• This language is named after Lord
Byron’s daughter.
• What is Ada?
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Programming Languages - 400
• He was the first to win the Turing Award
without having a PhD, with his major
contribution being made in programming
languages.
• Who was Robert Floyd?
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Programming Languages - 500
• Gosling’s original name for Java before
discovering it was already used.
• What is Oak?
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