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What is the National Crime Information Center?
NCIS stands for this.
100
What is an embedded system?
A computer used as a component of a larger system.
100
What is Software Engineering?
An engineering discipline focused on the production of the software as well as the development of tools, methodologies, and theories supporting software production.
100
What is the development phase?
During this phase software engineers produce a working software system that matches the specifications.
100
What is 40 million?
The NCIC contains a total of about this many records.
200
What is nonrevocable parole?
450 California inmates labeled with "high risk of violence" were let go by mistake and officials could not return because they were given this.
200
What is Israel And Saudi Arabia?
The Patriot Missile system was used to work defending against Scud missiles launched at what two countries?
200
What is Specification?
Focuses on determining the requirements of the system and the constraints under which it must operate.
200
What is duplicates?
One way to validate a model is to make sure it does this to the perfomance of the actual system.
200
What is shrinkwrap software?
Consumer software is often called this because of the plastic wrap surrounding the box containing the software and manuals.
300
What is $600 per minute?
A company installed a new bug that incorrectly charged 1.4% of their customers phone bill by this amount per minute.
300
Who is William Roentgen?
This German Physicist discovered the x-ray in 1895.
300
What is Simulation?
This is used to design nuclear weapons , search for oil, create pharmaceuticals, and design safer, more fuel efficient cars.
300
What is the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL)?
They developed the Therac-25.
300
What is Evolution?
In this phase you are modifying the software to meet the changing needs of the customer
400
What is increased?
A Pittsburgh University revealed that computer spelling and grammar checkers used by students, did this to the number of errors they made.
400
What is Denver National Airport?
This Airport began charging all of the airlines a flight fee of about $ 20 dollars per passenger, the highest airport fee in the nation.
400
What is Step_Saver Data Systems v. Wyse Technology and The Software Link?
This court case seemed to affirm the notion that software manufacturers could be held responsible for defects in their products.
400
What are felons?
In the November 2000 general election, Florida disqualified thousands of voters and identified them as this.
400
What is Therac-6 and Therac-20?
The codes of software for these were reused in the Therac-25.
500
What is Therac-25?
This linear accelerator was notoriously unreliable. and It was not unusual for the system to malfunction 40 times a day.
500
What is 9 %?
The Army claimed the Patriot missile defense system had been 95 percent effective destroying Scud missiles. But in reality it was actually this percentage of them destroyed.
500
What is the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)?
Article 2 of this governs the sales of products in the United States.
500
What is oil?
One of the first important uses of computer simulations was to help aid in the exploration of this.
500
What is the Justice Department?
This department stated it would no longer require FBI to ensure the accuracy of information about criminals and victims before entering it into the NCIC database.






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