Date:28/02/2005 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/bline/ew/2005/02/28/stories/2005022800310400.htm

Back Quiz

Questions

1. Who are the recipients of the 2004 A.M. Turing Award, considered the computing field's equivalent of the Nobel Prize?

2. What was the `Output Stacker' that was in the news recently?

3. According to Apple, what was LISA in Apple Lisa an acronym for?

4. What are `favatars'?

5. The New York Times is to buy which popular buy online information portal for $410 million?

6. What is the biggest contribution of Dr Paul Mockapetris to the world of Internet?

7. What is the latest feature added by Google to its India search engine?

8. Who has developed the first silicon Raman laser recently?

9. Who makes the Tecra range of notebook computers?

10. Who are the founding members of Phish Report Network?

Answers

1. Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, the creators of TCP/IP.

2. It's a software plug-in from the Winamp site that was reportedly used to make unauthorised copies of tunes from the `Napster To Go' subscription service.

3. Local Integrated Software Architecture.

4. Application of favicons as weblog avatars.

5. About.com.6.

He devised the Domain Name System (DNS) and together with Jon Postel, is acknowledged as the inventor of DNS.

7. The `Zeitgeist' that measures the most popular queries on the search engine.

8. Intel.

9. Toshiba

10. Microsoft, eBay, Visa and WholeSecurity.

V.V. Ramanan