June+11,+2012

Exocomps were [|artificial lifeforms] designed by the [|Tyran] [|Doctor] [|Farallon] that had gained [|sentience]. []
 * 1. What is an exocomp (appeared on the Star Trek television series)? **

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. []
 * 2. What is inscribed on the Ring of Mordor? **

Bell Labs and the University of Oxford []
 * 3. A microscopic DNA machine resembling a pair of motorized tweezers has been built by researchers -- using DNA from salmon sperm in a procedure the scientists say may one day help them build computers that are 1,000 times faster than today's models. These researchers are affiliated with what two organizations? **

peta and exa []
 * 4. A megaflop (M for megaflop) chip can perform a million floating point operations per second. A gigaflop (G for gigaflop) chip can perform a billion floating point operations per second (1000 times a million). A teraflop (T for teraflop) chip would perform a trillion floating point operations per second (1000 times a billion). What are the next two Greek prefixes that would be used for numbers greater than one trillion? (that is, 1000 times a trillion, and 1000000 times a trillion) **

For his pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games. []
 * 5. J. F. Nash ( // A Beautiful Mind // ) won the Nobel prize for contributions in what field of study? **

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee. Shareware (a.k.a. Free Trial) is not indented as a "freebie" but a concept that allows you to try the software for a period of time, allowing you to decide whether to buy it (or not). []
 * 6. What is the difference between shareware and freeware, and what freeware application is constantly being upgraded and improved by the Stone Soup team? **

The Fractint Home Page web site is the primary reference source for the freeware program "Fractint". []

The four-color theorem states that any map in a [|plane] can be colored using four-colors in such a way that regions sharing a common boundary (other than a single point) do not share the same color. []
 * 7. In 1976 two mathematicians, Kenneth Appel and W. Haken of the University of Illinois, and a local young computer scientist (Wilkes University) solved the "Four Color Problem". What is the Four Color Problem and what was the name of the local computer scientist who formulated the computer-solution to this problem? **

John Koch [|http://books.google.com/books?id=oGuXAkR6tlMC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=computer+scientist+(Wilkes+University)+solved+the+%22Four+Color+Problem%22&source=bl&ots=-g-vBLT6XH&sig=5-Ya0FG3434SHrT1PmJfWzZdiqk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QFXPT9H_M4rq6gHzr8W4DA&ved=0CFYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false]

SHRDLU is a program for understanding natural language, written by Terry Winograd at the M.I.T. []
 * 8. A crucial landmark in the development of intelligent systems was the appearance in 1971 of the SHRDLU program. Who created this program and what was its purpose? **

DO NOT DO
 * 9. The following semaphore signal translates into a term representing a new technology. What is this term and what are the promises of this new technology? **

Download At: []
 * 10. John Horton Conway, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge, created a cellular-automata simulation game he called Life . There are many Java/ Javascript versions of Life available on the World Wide Web. There are also many shareware/freeware applications available for use on Macintosh and Windows systems. Provide me with a URL to download a shareware/freeware version for Microsoft Windows. Who was Jean-Maurice-Emile Baudot and what is his role in the development of communication systems? **

Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot, (born 1845, Magneux, France—died March 28, 1903, Sceaux), engineer who, in 1874, received a patent on a telegraph code that by the mid-20th century had supplanted [|Morse Code] as the most commonly used telegraphic alphabet. []

Informatics is the scientific study of information. []
 * 11. Define // informatics // . Where can I find detailed information on this subject (such as a web address)? **

Napier's bones, also called Napier's rods, are numbered rods which can be used to perform [|multiplication] of any number by a number 2-9. []
 * 12. What is "Napier's Bones?" **

1 6 15 20 15 6 1 []
 * 13. What are the digits of row seven of Pascal's triangle? **

A googol is a [|large number] equal to []
 * 14. What is a googol? **

Wind chill temperature = 35.74 + 0.6215T - 35.75V ( **0.16) + 0.4275TV( **0.16) []
 * 15. Provide the formula for calculating wind chill. **

a prime number of at least 1000 decimal digits []
 * 16. What is a titanic prime number? **

Raymond E. Welch Sr. won the race on August 7, 1932, becoming the first one-legged person to ascend the peak. []
 * 17. Who is Raymond E. Welch, Sr., and for what is he famous? **

rhombic dodecahedron is the [|dual polyhedron] of the [|cuboctahedron] []
 * 18. What is a rhombic dodecahedron? **

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 * 19. What are the lyrics to Bob Dylan's song Subterranean Homesick Blues? **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1932 Summer Olympics were held at [|Los Angeles], California, United States. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_city_and_country_hosted_the_1932_Summer_Olympics#ixzz1wxLDrLk6]
 * 20. Where were the 1932 Summer Olympics held? Where will the 2012 Summer Olympics be held? **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The 2012 Summer Olympic Games will be held in London <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]