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V.V. Ramanan

Questions

1. What does the chat acronym or Net lingo `P911' stand for?

2. Which OS was formerly known as OpenBeOS?

3. What is the single biggest contribution of Koji Kondo to the evergreen video game `Super Mario Bros'?

4. Name the online meeting company that Cisco Systems Inc is to acquire for about $3.2 billion in cash.

5. In the RSA algorithm for public-key encryption, what do the letters RSA stand for?

6. Who sponsors or provides financial support to the `Turing Award', considered the `Nobel Prize of computing'?

7. Which computer is considered the world's first practical stored program electronic computer?

8. Which search engine system for the Gopher protocol was developed by Rhett Jones and the University of Utah?

9. What is code-named `Orcas'?

10. Which very popular Java-based MMORPG takes place in Gielinor?

Answers

1. Commonly seen in text messages sent by youngsters, it is meant to alert the other person that a parent is nearby!

2. Haiku

3. He composed the famous theme song

4. WebEx Communications Inc

5. The initials of the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who publicly described it in 1977.

6. Intel Corporation. The award is currently accompanied by a prize of $100,000.

7. The EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator).

8. Jughead

9. The next-generation Microsoft Visual Studio.

10. RuneScape