FEATURE/SiliconValley.com Celebrates Its Launch Week with Fun Facts and Search for Nerd for the New Millennium.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)--Feb. 19, 1999--In conjunction with The Tech Museum of Innovation, SiliconValley.com http://www.siliconvalley.com -- the premier location for Silicon Valley technology news, opinion and trends -- has concluded its search for the model Nerd for the New Millennium. It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have 25-year-old Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. programmer (1) A hardware device used to customize a programmable logic chip such as a PAL, GAL, EPROM, etc. See PROM programmer. (2) A person who designs the logic for and writes the lines of codes of a computer program. , Adam Elman El·man , Mischa 1891-1967. Russian-born American violinist regarded as one of the foremost violinists of his time. , and he won a $1,000 credit at online computer store NECX by answering 20 questions including: -0-
1) What are the exact names of the five colors of Apple's new
iMac
Answer: Strawberry, Lime, Blueberry, Tangerine and
Grape
2) The cover of Popular Mechanics in 1975 featured which two
people who had just produced the MITS Altair personal
computer?
Answer: Bill Gates and Paul Allen
3) Which is the slowest Intel(R) processor?
a) Pentium II b) 386 Processor c) 8080 Microprocessor d)
Pentium Pro
Answer: c) 8080 Microprocessor
4) What does http stand for?
Answer: HyperText Transfer Protocol
5) Which one of these companies had positive net earnings over
the four quarters ending Sept. 30 or Oct. 31, 1998?
a) Yahoo! b) Amazon.com c) eBay d) Lycos
Answer: c) eBay
6) What product, created in 1991 by University of Helsinki
student Linus Torvalds, now competes against Microsoft(R)?
Answer: Linux
7) What does JPEG stand for?
Answer: Joint Photographic Experts Group
8) What does the football mascot of the University of Minnesota
have to do with the Internet?
Answer: Gopher is an application that was developed at the
University of Minnesota to help organize files on the
Internet. It's named after the school's football mascot.
9) What do the CEOs or founders of CrossWorlds Software,
Marimba and Check Point Software have in common?
Answer: They are all women.
10) Which company fostered the development of UNIX? a) AT&T b)
Microsoft c) IBM d) Unisys
Answer: a) AT&T
-0- In the final round, Adam and the 2 runners-up revealed their true nerd-worthiness by answering questions such as, "what is a SLIP connection?" and "what IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database runs on NT, Unix and IBM?" The full list of questions and answers is available at http://www.siliconvalley.com Recognizing that Nerds like Adam Elman are a rare breed and the rest of us need more basic information, SiliconValley.com has also put together a list of essential Valley Facts underlining un·der·lin·ing n. 1. The act of drawing a line under; underscoring. 2. Emphasis or stress, as in instruction or argument. the area's unique culture: Number of.... -0-
-- San Jose Mercury News articles that referred to "Silicon Valley"
in January 1999 -- 698
-- Businesses in the Bay Area with "Silicon Valley" as part of their
name in online American Business, Inc. (List found on
http://www.BayAreaYellowPages.com ) -- 151
-- Businesses in Austin, Texas with "Silicon Valley" as part of
their name in the ABI/Zip2 database -- 2
-- Colleges whose names include "Silicon Valley" headquartered
outside of Silicon Valley -- 1
-- Web pages with Silicon Valley found when searching Alta Vista --
113,360
-- Web sites with Silicon Valley found when searching Yahoo -- 2,956
-- Used car dealers using Silicon Valley in name -- 1, (sells used
Volvos)
-- AOL members with Silicon Valley as part of their Member Name --
12, including Tammy the Ultimate Silicon Valley Princess
-- Businesses with Silicon Valley in their name listed on New York
Stock Exchange -- 0
-- Businesses with Silicon Valley in their name listed on NASDAQ --
3
-- Books on Barnesandnoble.com with Silicon Valley in their title --
4
-- CDs with Silicon Valley that can be purchased through cdnow.com
-- 1 from the group Sick of Society
-- Streets in San Jose with Silicon Valley in the name -- 1, Silicon
Valley Boulevard
-- Cybercafes in Silicon Valley -- 10
-- Ferraris sold in Santa Clara County in 1997 -- 7
-- Information-related jobs in Silicon Valley -- 250,000
-- Square feet of the most popular Silicon Valley cubicle -- 8 x 8
Outposts of the technology industry worldwide have tried to
emulate the success of Silicon Valley.
Here are some of them:
1. Silicon Alley -- NYC
2. Silicon Bayou -- Louisiana
3. Silicon Beach -- Orange County and Santa Barbara, Calif.
4. Silicon Desert -- Phoenix
5. Silicon Forest -- Portland, Ore.
6. Silicon Glen -- Livingston, Scotland
7. Silicon Gulch -- Austin, Texas
8. Silicon Island -- Alameda, Calif., Staten Island, N.Y or Taiwan
9. Silicon Mesa -- Albuquerque, N.M.
10. Silicon Mountain -- Colorado Springs, Colo.
11. Silicon Plain -- Finland
12. Silicon Plains or Silicon Prairie -- Various Midwestern cities
13. Silicon Plantation -- State of Virginia
14. Silicon Plateau -- Bangalore, India
15. Silicon Seaboard -- Richmond, Va.
16. Silicon Triangle -- Raleigh/Durham, N.C.
17. Silicon Tundra -- Minneapolis/St. Paul
18. Silicon Valley North -- Ottawa, Canada
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