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V.V. Ramanan

Questions

1. To which US politician is the quote "If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check" attributed?

2. What is Apple's trade name for its implementation of the Zeroconf specification framework called?

3. What does the acronym OSCAR stand for in the instant messaging protocol?

4. Who wrote the book `The Mathematical Analysis of Logic'?

5. Of the four companies responsible for the `White Book', the specification document for VCD, two are Sony and Philips. Name the other two.

6. `Mine of Information'(MOI) and `The Information Mine' (TIM) were the names considered for... ?

7. How did 15-year old Richard Skrenta achieve infamy in 1982?

8. Which open source mailing list manager's name is derived from Latin for `master of the house'?

9. According to its creator Larry Wall, what's the basic difference between `Perl' and `perl'?

10. In the context of search engines, what are `stop words'?

Answers

1. Former US Vice-President, J. Danforth Quayle.

2. Bonjour (formerly Rendezvous)

3. Open System for CommunicAtion in Realtime.

4. George Boole, creator of the Boolean logic.

5. JVC and Matsushita

6. `World Wide Web'

7. He wrote `Elk Cloner', the first computer virus known to have spread in the wild.

8. Majordomo

9. `Perl' means the language, while `perl' is the term for any compiler or interpreter of Perl.

10. Very common words that search engines have been programmed to ignore.