TCS IT Wiz, 2008

TCS IT Wiz, 2008 is an inter-school computer quiz regularly organised by TCS in India. It was held in Delhi on December11. The quiz began with a 20-minute preliminary round, which was followed by a final round wherein top six teams competed for the ultimate position. And guess what! My school team made it to the final, and guess what! They won the quiz. I have collected some of the questions that the quiz master asked in the finals. One can try these questions. Another tech quiz which can be attempted can be had from the www.tcsitwiz.com.

1. Something about Pope, basically how the cyber-cafe was envisioned.
2. A term that comes from the world of submarines, basically about how Sonar- the answer was ping
3. Douglas Engelbart and the mouse, something about taking a wooden shell and breaking apart a car to get the wheels
4. In 1987 a company adopted the pacman design. Created by Scott Baker, According to them the name has an intended slash which denotes motion and speed- The Microsoft Logo
5. In 1998, Jerome Rotta, Max Morris.... some people re-engineered a microsoft codec and created another codec....the DivX codec
This was the second round, which was the crossword

6. Dan Googen created this. In the footnotes was the line “A reference for the rest of us” What am I talking about?... The Dummies Series of Books
7. August Dvorak.... QWERTY keyboard
8. Computing Speed Unit...Flops
9. When you have a CD which is given free with a magazine, what is that called?... An Onsert
10. 3 Starks Korean...Samsung
11. These 4 colours were part of an attempted trademark Lime, Blueberry Tangerine and Grape....iMac
12. Allows one system to imitate another....emulator
13. Founder of Vulcan....Paul Allen
the round which was only about TCS
14. “I completed my Post-Grad from MIT and joined TATA as a manager.”(There was a bit more on this question, was not able to catch them)....F.C.Kohli
15. Which of these companies was acquired by TCS...(he gave options)...Citigroup Global
16. Something about The Wall Street Journal and a service.... M Krishi
17. Something about India's mission critical statement.... Passport Seva
The Visual Round
18. This question was really nice, they showed a picture of a sun, and asked which top level domain it was associated with......in
19. Showed a picture of supercomputers....Eka
20. showed a quote “Just for fun”....Linus Torvalds
21. Claude Shannon
22. Kodak
23. Which company was the first to develop the GUI....Xerox
24. A term coined by a programmer Lou Montulli had the idea of using them in an email....(The quizmaster broke off when someone gave the answer).....Cookies
25. A creation to counter the dominance of Flash.......Silverlight
26. In the year 2008 Nokia changed its calendar from Gregorian to lunar because it anticipated heavy sales in a particular region. For which region did they do this?....Beijing(Because of the Beijing Olympics)
27. Don Hoefflor coined this term....Silicon Valley

The Philips i-Pill

Electronic pills have been used for diagnostic applications such as imaging, but the iPill from Philips Research, designed to treat gastrointestinal disorders, goes a step further, dispensing medication at a location and rate programmed by a physician. The disposable capsule, which is about the same size as an ordinary pill, contains a tiny computer, a wireless transmitter, and a series of sensors; it passes naturally through the digestive system after being swallowed with food or water. Although the iPill is still a prototype, Philips is about to begin testing it in animals and is working with pharmaceutical companies to evaluate what drugs might work best with it.

A. Microprocessor
Before the iPill is swallowed, a doctor loads it with a program that instructs it where to deliver its contents. The microprocessor monitors the pill's location, using data on pH, temperature, and the time elapsed since ingestion, and then determines when and in what pattern the pill's fluid pump will release drugs into the patient's digestive tract.

B. pH Sensor
The pH sensor helps the pill track its passage from the highly acidic stomach to the less acidic intestines. The pill's environment grows progressively more alkaline until it reaches the colon, which is more acidic again.

C. Temperature Sensor
When the patient swallows the iPill, the temperature sensor detects the change from room temperature to body temperature. That causes the microprocessor to start the clock that will help the pill calculate its location.

D. Fluid Pump
The drugs stored in the pill's reservoir can be released in a single burst, in a series of doses at multiple locations, or little by little as the capsule travels through the gut. The pump that releases the drugs consists of a motor and a piston driven by a screw rod, which can move precise amounts of fluid at the command of the microprocessor.

E. Wireless Transceiver
The iPill can communicate by radio frequency with a control device outside the body. It can gather temperature data, for example, and report on changes it finds as it travels. If a drug is causing a bad reaction, a doctor can send a command to stop the pill from releasing any more of it.

F. Battery
The iPill is powered by a silver oxide battery that holds a charge intended to last 48 hours--about twice the duration of the pill's natural transit through the body.

Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21817/?nlid=1604 and http://lnexun.com

8th NCO (2nd level)

This is an important information for all students who have cleared the first level of the 8th National Cyber Olympiad. The details of the 2nd level online examination (such as examination date, time, centre etc) are all uploaded onto the SOF website. You may visit their website and view your details by entering your 11-digit roll No. separated by dashes. e.g. If your first level Roll No. was DL014608021, then you need to enter DL0146-08-021 to view your 2nd level details.

Visit the website http://www.sofworld.org

All the very best for the 2nd level exam!

Some bone tickling jokes

You might be wondering, the name of the blog is so humorous, but the posts are so boring. So, here are some insaning jokes for you.

1. Santa asks Banta, "If you tell me what is there in the basket, then all these eggs would be yours." Then, he asks him, if he told him the number of eggs in the basket, then all of the eight eggs would be his. Later, he tells him if he told him the animal from which these eggs had been procured, then the hen who gave these eggs will also be his. At this, Banta holds his head down and asks for some hint.
2. Santa is opening a college. The name of the college is Sants Singh Girls: College only for boys.
3. A punjabi woman telling about her ill child to an English doctor of London: my kaka is ill ik week da, na eat da na sleep da bas weep da and cheek da.
4. Santa: Hay friend, tomorrow is my girl friend's birthday. I am unable to decide as to what present should I give her?
   Banta: How does she look?
   Santa: She is extremely beautiful and enchanting.
   Banta: In that case, the best gift for her would be to give her my telephone No.
5. A very funny quote: come like a horse, sit like a thief, and go like a King. This slogan was written on a toilet door.
6. Bumper offer: send me 99 SMSs and win a car ka photo, 29 colour TVs ka dibba, England jane wale plane ko tata karne ka moka and mere sath dinner, vo bhi aapkay ghar may! Offer valid till Sunday, hurry!
7. Girls are 70% beautiful
   Girls are 75% sweet
   Girls are 85% naughty
   Girls are 90% cute
   Girls are 100% lovely
   Total=70+75+85+90+100=420.
   Girls are 420, so be careful and better watch out.
8. बोले तो तुम झकास, तुम cute, तुम great, तुम famous, तुम cool, तुम intelligent, तुम star, तुम stylish बन सकते हो अगर मुझे follow करो तो।
   तो अभी से शुरु हो जाओ।

Many more jokes shortly following! Give your tongue some practice with this tongue twister:

Which watch did which witch wear and which witch wore which watch?

Examination fever!

For all those guys who are in classes X and XII, there is an important news. The Central Board for Secondary Education has announced the date sheet for the main examination scheduled to be held in 2009. You can download the date sheet by visiting the CBSE website http://www.cbse.nic.in and then downloading the datesheet!

Turning attention to competitive exams/olympiads!
For all of you who took part in the Unified Cyber Olympiad, 2008, the results of the 2nd level are out. Visit the following mentioned website to view your result by entering your 8-digit hall ticket No.

http://www.unifiedcouncil.com

The International Informatics Olympiad, 2008 was conducted by Computer Literacy Foundation or Silverzone.
Top 500 rank holders are selected for the 2nd level. The CLF has announced that the 2nd level will be held on the 15th of January, during the school hours within the school premises. The syllabus of the test remains unchanged. However, there is slight modification in the No. of questions. Instead of thirty questions in the first level, the second level paper will consist of fourty questions. Time will be forty minutes. The difficulty of the paper will be higher.

For all those guys who were selected in the National Cyber olympiad 1st level organised by Science Olympiad Foundation, the 2nd level Online Examination will be conducted on the 18th and 19th January. The exact schedule coming up very soon. The results of the 1st level National Science Olympiad will be declared in the last week of December or first week of January. Till then, enjoy your vacations and happy internetting! Also, practice this speech exercise: Betty had a butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought another butter to make the bitter butter better.

Have fun and keep commenting.

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A very warm welcome and a big high to all those cool dudes who really want to have a lot of fun. If you are a person who loves to laugh, then this is the right place for you.

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