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Questions

1. Who is Peter Ungaro?

2. Why is June 24, 2001, an important date in the history of the

Windows OS?

3. What was the former name of Yahoo! Search Marketing?

4. Whose tagline is `Good for the Web. Good for the World.'?

5. Name the co-founder of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and creator of LISP.

6. With which algorithm is the name of Sir Antony Hoare synonymous?

7. Which co-founder of Sun Microsystems founded Granite Systems that was taken over by Cisco?

8. Which work by three IITians received the coveted Gödel Prize for 2006?

9. Mac OS X v10.5 is codenamed... ?

10. Who recently picked up a 10 per cent stake in TCS China?

Answers

1. He is the president and CEO of Cray.

2. On that day, Microsoft disclosed plans for a next generation OS, now the Vista, via an internal memo to its employees.

3. Overture Services, Inc.

4. Mozilla

5. John McCarthy

6. The sorting algorithm Quicksort.

7. Andy Bechtolsheim

8. The Agrawal-Kayal-Saxena primality test.

9. Leopard

10. Microsoft

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