You may have seen IBM’s Watson challenge two all-time human Jeopardy champions. Now it is your turn to pit your wits, not against Watson, but against other student experts from around the world regarding the X10 programming language! The winner will receive their choice of an X10 t-shirt or a free workshop registration for the PLDI workshop on X10. (Second place will receive the other prize).
Here is how it works. Below are a set of twelve "answers" Jeopardy-style. The first email received with twelve correct responses will be announced as the winner. The second email received with twelve correct responses will be announced as runner-up. This contest is not open to IBM employees or contractors. It is open to both graduate and undergraduate students worldwide with an interest in X10. Email your answers to jctho...@us.ibm.com. Please remember that in Jeopardy, the "answers" are given to you and you must respond in the form of a "question" that fits with the category. For example, an answer might be "This is the third planet from the sun" and the correct response would be in the form of a question: "What is earth?" Good luck! Category: X10 innovation award winners around the world. 1. Answer: This innovation award winner has a gemstone translation project. 2. Answer: The university of this Innovation Award winner has a banana slug as a mascot. 3. Answer: This European Innovation Award winner is moving undergraduate courses to X10. 4. Answer: This Innovation Award winner is working on MapReduce. 5. Answer: The work of this Innovation Award winner allows programmers to use Java frameworks. 6. Answer: These two Innovation Award winners are at a university which awarded a Ph.D. degree in mathematics (non-honarary) to an American football quarterback who played for the Cleveland Browns in the 1960’s. -------------------------------------------------- Category: Play with Numbers, Words and Symbols. 7.Answer: The cost in US dollars of an X10 license times e times pi times Avagadro’s Number. 8. Answer: This computer language could be expressed, in some way, as MULTIPLY concatenated with ADD. 9. Answer: This X10 construct can be found in a place to transform eggs to chicks, a portable firestarter, and the main source of calories in beef. 10. Answer: This X10 construct is intended to introduce a discipline to prevent deadlocks and race conditions. 11. Answer: In this hexadecimal year, an IBM computer beat world chess champion Kasparov. 12. Answer: This Innovation Award winner may make you think of an open German penny. John C. Thomas 1S-A14, IBM T. J. Watson Research PO Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (non-US Post Office: 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532) www.truthtable.com jctho...@us.ibm.com (01)-914-784-7561 T/L 863-7561 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ X10-users mailing list X10-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/x10-users
