Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Question - 608


This is an illustration of which prevalent theory?

Answer: Hubbert peak theory or peak oil theory. Ameya, Sameer Gauria, KAMANASISH, Jamie, Sribharath, Saket, and Manix got it.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Question - 584


Who is the guy in the middle upending the table?

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Question - 575


Identify the person and the object.

Answer: Maurice Wilkes, the pioneering British computer scientist who recently passed away, and EDSAC, the first practical stored-program computer. Anand, matti tapaninen, Manix, and Dinesh got it. Nice work.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Question - 562


Connect to an engineering concept?

Answer: Van Eck Phreaking - a way to spy on electronic displays by detecting their electromagnetic radiation, popularized by Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. mekie, Krithi, Divya Shankar, and Dinesh got it. Awesome crack.