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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Jul 18 04:21:51 1991
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 91 01:30:32 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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ckclark (Calvin Clark):
To grow,
To live,
To learn.
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jdbaker (J David Baker):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
The 1991 Computer Bowl, Round 1 answers and round 2 questions (answers
to r2 and q's from r3 tomorrow):
Answers (Round 1):
1. Automatic Computer
2. Eight
3. Blaise
4. Shirt and Jacket
5. EMORAC
6. Remington Rand
7. What's My Line?
8. Altair 8800
9. Alan Perlis, 1966
10. Because It's Time Network
11. Joseph Marie Jacquard
12. Two
13. "A" and "M"
14. Doug Engelbart
Questions (round 2):
1. Who composed the Chinese room problem in an attempt to prove that
computers can't think?
2. Some computer scientists are a bit odd---one famous computer pioneer
had a hatred for street musicians. Was this Pascal, Leibnitz, or
Babbage?
3. "High Sierra" is the name of [a] CD-ROM standard. What is the origin
of that name. Was it named after thet chief designer's dog, a
communications code word, or a hotel?
4. What was the first machine with an ETHERNET interface?
5. There is a computer company whose name is A-S-T Research. The name
of the company came from the first initials of each of its three
founders. Can you give me their names?
6. It's almost a cliche that many Silicon Valley companies started out
in a garage. Of the following companies, which did not start in a
garage---Apple, Hewlett Packard, Televideo, or Sun?
7. One company that did start in a garage was Hewlett Packard [sorry,
can't find a way to not spoil this one!]. The garage was on a street in
Palo Alto. The two men were Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. What was
the name of the street?
8. Digital Research Incorporated is oftene referred to as D-R-I. But in
fact, when was it first formed it was called I-D-R. What did the
letters stand for?
9. Which of the following sort routines was named after a person---heap
sort, quick sort, shell sort, or bubble sort?
10. What do the letters B-C-D stand for?
11. Before Seymour Cray cofounded Control Data, he was a computer
engineer at what company--Sperry Rand, IBM, or Honeywell?
12. What was the first encyclopedia to appear in CD-ROM format?
13. Three computer companies have the word "Packard" in their names.
Can you name those three companies?
14. Ada Lovelace is often referred to as the first programmer. But her
father's occupation had nothing to do with computers or math. What did
Ada Lovelace's father do for a living?
15. A book entitled "Who Got Einstein's Office?" is about an institution
where a lot of early computer research was done. What is the
institution?
16. What book containing a bird's name is about illegal break-ins on
computer networks?
17. The Book of the Month Club recently offered a new novel based on a
compute rtheme. What was the name of the book---was it "Goodbye Mr.
Mips", "The Open Window Version 3.0" or "The Difference Engine"?
18. Kurt Vonnegut once wrote a short story about a copmuter that wrote
poetry and then eventually committed suicide. What was the name of that
computer---was it calld EPICAC, MYCIN, or Dresden?
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mjdaly (Mark J Daly):
Strat '78 Standings
Boston 12 3 - .800
NY Yankees 19 11 .5 .633
Pittsburgh 15 12 3 .555
Los Angeles 0 0 4.5 ---
Texas 6 9 6 .400
Houston 3 6 6 .333
Baltimore 3 9 7.5 .250
Montreal 2 10 8.5 .166
LEADERS
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AVG | SLG | OBA
Cruz, HOU .368 | Murray, BAL .833 | Cruz, HOU .455
Murray, BAL .361 | Scott, BOS .735 | Singleton, BAL .455
Hargrove,TEX .343 | Stargell, PIT .679 | Hargrove, TEX .439
Stargell,PIT .333 | Singleton,BAL .629 | Yastrzemski,BOS .382
Lynn, BOS .320 | Rice, BOS .612 |
HRs | RBIs | Runs | SB - CS
Stargell, PIT 6 | Stargell,PIT 18 | Parker, PIT 27 | Moreno, PIT 8-2
Evans, BOS 6 | Murray, BAL 16 | Stargell, PIT 27 | Bumbry, BAL 4-0
Murray, BAL 5 | Parker, PIT 15 | | Remy, BOS 4-0
Rice, BOS 5 | Rice, BOS 10 | | Cabell, HOU 2-1
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rei (Cynic):
To systematically hunt down people who make fun of my .plan.
:-P
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turk (Matthew A Turk):
I don't log in here. Please send mail to turk@media.mit.edu.
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