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Questions

1. Which MS Office application was developed by Bob Gaskins, a former Berkeley Ph.D. student?

2. Lawrence Livermore National Labs was in the news for the third time in a row because of... ?

3. Fill in the blanks, with the name of a pioneer, in the title of the book: `Free as in Freedom: ______ ______ Crusade for Free Software' by Sam Williams.

4. Wietse Venema is best known for writing which mail system?

5. Jonathan Ive, vice-president of Apple's Industrial Design, is credited with designing which colourful Apple product?

6. What is Sun's official name for `Niagara'?

7. In which 1995 movie does Sandra Bullock play Angela Bennett, a computer technician?

8. IEEE 1394 is commonly called... ?

9. Name the free and popular MMORPG run by The Walt Disney Company.

10. One more on MMORPG. What does `OOM' describe?

Answers

1. PowerPoint

2. IBM's BlueGene/L, the only supercomputer to exceed 100 teraflops.

3. Richard Stallman

4. Postfix mail system

5. iMac

6. UltraSparc T1

7. The Net

8. FireWire

9. Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom.

10. OOM, i.e Out of Mana, describes a player who has used up all his magic points.

V.V. Ramanan

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