Information Technology Edition
IT Futures Summit: 2017
Operating
Systems
Tech Film Trivia
Technological
Innovations
Tech Acronyms
Let’s Get
Technical
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Microsoft Windows
Operating Systems for $100
This operating system
was originally written in
assembly language.
Operating Systems for $200
This company's operating
system code names have
included "Cheetah," "Puma,"
and "Panther”.
Operating Systems for $300
This provides the most basic
level of control over the
computer’s hardware devices.
(Would you like that with butter
or without? How about salt?)
Operating Systems for $400
A ‘task’ or a ‘job’ that an
individual program has
pushed to the CPU.
Operating Systems for $500
This device allowed
people to disappear and
rematerialize elsewhere in
Star Trek.
Tech Film Trivia/TV for $100
In “Iron Man”, Tony Stark
used this computer, that
features artificial
intelligence.
Tech Film/TV Trivia for $200
This film featured the
Portable Automated
Somnacin IntraVenous
device to upload dreams
to people’s mind.
Tech Film/TV Trivia for $300
This television show features
a cybersecurity engineer and
hacker who is recruited by a
group of hacktivists who
want to erase all debts by
attacking a megacorporation.
Tech Film/TV Trivia for $400
This television British import has standalone episodes that examine modern
society, and the unintended
consequences/outcomes of technology,
like creating robots to replace
loved/deceased partners, cookies can be
removed from humans to create a digital
copy of themselves to act as servants, etc.
Tech Film/TV Trivia for $500
This computer drive quickly
revolutionized the storage and
transfer of data.
Tech Innovations for $100
The mega-pixel sensor
was developed in this
decade.
Tech Innovations for $200
These were used to play
the original Sony Play
stations.
Tech Innovations for $300
This accessory, scorned by Steve
Jobs during his lifetime, was
unveiled by Apple’s boss, Tim
Cook.
Tech Innovations for $400
In 2015, Google created
this new company that
encompasses several
industries, including
technology, life sciences
and research.
Tech Innovations for $500
FTP
Tech Acronyms for $100
Tech Acronyms for $200
CSS
Tech Acronyms for $200
This company is the biggest manufacturer
of computer network equipment, and it also
builds security, video conferencing and
collaboration technology.
Tech Acronyms for $300
This software testing technique used
to discover coding errors and security
loopholes in software, operating
systems, or networks by inputting
massive amounts of random data to a
system in an attempt to make it crash.
Tech Acronyms for $400
FiOS
Tech Acronyms for $500
You would need to perform
this programming sequence
to execute some code repeatedly
based on this certain condition.
Let’s Get Technical for $100
This software translates
code into something
meaningful for the
computer to understand.
Let’s Get Technical for $200
This has to be
done before
source code can
be compiled.
Let’s Get Technical for $300
This generation of
languages allows for the
use of words and
commands.
Let’s Get Technical for $400
The value of a
constant doesn’t
change, the value of a
variable can change
throughout a
program.
Let’s Get Technical for $500
Random IT
Disruptive
Technologies
Hack This!
Social Media
Web Stuff
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Collaboratively edited,
multilingual, free
Internet encyclopedia,
founded by Jimmy
Wales and Larry
Sanger in 2001.
Random IT for $200
Random IT for $400
W3 is another
abbreviation for this.
Random IT for $400
This American entertainment
company, founded in 1997,
specializes in providing
streaming media and videoon-demand online.
Random IT for $600
This is the name,
and type, of
Linux’s mascot.
Random IT for $800
This company
first produced
the 3 ½ inch
floppy disk.
Random IT for $1,000
This company has
created a virtual
reality hardware.
Disruptive Technologies for $200
This authentication
technology is used in
computer science as a
form of identification
and access control.
Disruptive Technologies for $400
The communication
process between devices
and networking which
enables these objects to
collect/exchange data.
Disruptive Technologies for $600
This process
allows
driverless cars.
Disruptive Technology for $800
This company founder and CEO
made it their personal mission to
create the first robotic butler.
Disruptive Technology for $1,000
This is someone who seeks
and exploits weaknesses in
a computer system or
computer network.
Hack This for $200
This film featured a computer
intrusion into NORAD, and
raised the public belief that
computer security hackers
(especially teenagers) could be a
threat to national security.
Hack This for $400
This activity is the subversive use
of computers and computer
networks to promote a political
agenda.
Hack This for $600
This is the practice and
study of techniques for
secure communication in
the presence of third
parties called adversaries
Hack This for $800
In both hardware and
software this is the
process of taking apart
an object to see how it
works in order to
duplicate or enhance the
object.
Hack This for $1,000
This company is
considering expanding
the number of
characters for user
posts/messages.
Social Media for $200
This imaging messaging and mobile
application makes available pictures
and messaging only for a short time
before they become inaccessible.
Social Media for $400
This social network service for
business professional was
recently acquired by Microsoft
for $26.4 billion.
Social Media for $600
This generation is the
most active on social
media.
Social Media for $800
60% of hiring managers
check this as a way to
find information that
supports a candidates
qualifications.
Social Media for $1,000
This part of the URL tells
users what type of
organization uses the
address.
Web Stuff for $200
This is a lossless format
for image files that
supports both animated
and static images.
Web Stuff for $400
A type of graphical user interface
element that allows the user to
choose only one of a predefined
set of options
Web Stuff for $600
Web Stuff for $800
The way web-safe colors are
written so that all web
browsers and operating
systems can recognize them
Web Stuff for $800
This is the most popular and
widely used free and opensource content management
system (CMS) based on PHP and
MySQL.
Web Stuff for $1,000
The 1%rs: Wealthy Tech Leaders
This tech CEO just passed
Warren Buffett to become
the second richest person
on the planet.