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SoftwareEngineering
Potpourri Mobile Computing and the Net
Acronyms Models
Second Round
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Software Engineering-100• This photo from the first NATO conference on software engineering (1968) is of the first Turing Award winner.
• Who is Alan Perlis?
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Software Engineering-200
• He is the new CTO and Deputy Director of the organization that manages CMMI?
• Who is Doug Schmidt (new employee at SEI)?
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Software Engineering-300
• He is the author of the recent book “The Design of Design.”
• Who is Fred Brooks?
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Software Engineering-500
• The “Most Expensive Hyphen in History” caused a failure of this rocket booster in 1962.
• What is Mariner 1?(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_1)
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• This Java collection class is a mutable sequence of characters with no guarantee of synchronization?
• What is StringBuilder?
Potpourri-100
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Potpourri-200
• This event took place on January 1, 1970.
• What is the start of the Unix epoch?
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Potpourri-300
• In 2006, she became the first woman to win the Turing Award for her work in languages.
• Who is Fran Allen?
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Potpourri-400• This science fiction author said “I do not
fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
• Who is Isaac Asimov?
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Potpourri-500
• A “sleepy” web architecture.
• What is REST (Representational State Transfer)?
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Mobile Computing/Net-100
• This Google Vice President co-designed TCP/IP.
• Who is Vint Cerf?
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• This social network rhymes with Microsoft’s search engine.
• What is Ning?
Mobile Computing/Net-200
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• This company received its startup funding as a transfer from one PDA to another.
• What is PayPal?
Mobile Computing/Net-300
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• This HTTP method is used to echo a request (often for debugging purposes).
• What is a TRACE?
Mobile Computing/Net-400
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• The Android Binder uses a mobile IPC mechanism that can be traced to this operating system.
• What is BeOS?
Mobile Computing/Net-500
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Acronyms-100
• SPLASH
• What is Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity?
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Acronyms-200
• In 1914, CTR (Computing Tabulating Recording) was given a new name with this acronym.
• What is IBM?
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Acronyms-500
• AVD (in the context of mobile phones)
• What is Android Virtual Device?
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Models-100
• This Statecharts expert gave an afternoon keynote talk at OOPSLA 1997 in Atlanta.
• Who is David Harel?
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Models-200
• He is an advocate of Executable UML and developed a software methodology with Sally Shlaer.
• Who is Stephen Mellor?
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Models-300
• These were the three independent methodologies developed by each of the Amigos before they unified.
• What are the Booch Method, Object Modeling Technique (OMT), and Objectory?
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Models-400
• A metamodel is similar to this concept in programming language definition.
• What is a grammar?