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What is Windows 7?
With 40 million lines of code, this Operating system dominated the PC ecosystem until just recently, making up for the company's often mocked Vista release.
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What is PEAK?
In the legacy Linde environment, this application tracks plant worker efficiency and KPIs.
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What is AWS (or Amazon)?
With more than 25 billion dollars in revenue, this largest cloud computing provider started as a way to standardize its companies retail computing infrastructure
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Who is Tim Cook?
After heading up operations, he was made CEO after the company's iconic founder's death in 2011.
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What is SMTP?
This protocol was defined in 1982 and has become the accpted standard to communicate with remote servers via email.
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What is ENIAC ( or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)?
Weighing in at 23 tons, this is the name of the first electronic general-purpose computer.
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What is PALS?
This Legacy Praxair app is responsible for planning and forecasting deliveries within USIG and spent more than a decade in development.
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What is Android?
Based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software, this mobile OS was developed as an alternative to iOS's closed ecosystem.
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Who is Linus Torvalds?
Born in 1969, this famous Finnish-American created the popular open source Linux Kernel
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What is the Apollo Program?
Margret Hamilton was awarded the presidential medal of freedom for leading the development of this programs on-board flight computer named after the son of Zeus
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What is .Net 4.8?
Included in the windows May 2019 update, this is the current Microsoft .Net version.
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What is Liprotect®?
This CES service supports Linde Engineers inspecting and documenting any Customer gas installations.
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What is Azure?
With services like Cosmos DB and Function Apps, this cloud computing platform is second only to AWS in market share.
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Who is Bill Gates?
As if launching the worlds largest personal computing company wasn't enough, this man and his wife Melinda have pledged to give half of his wealth to charity.
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What is Java?
Since being acquired by Oracle this decade, this popular programming language pioneered "Write-Once Run-Anywhere" technology allowing it to run on various platforms at no-cost.
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What is Facebook?
With over 4 billion downloads in the google play store without counting its popular messaging stand alone, this is the most popular app of all time.
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What is Netscape?
This browser lost to Internet explorer in the first broswer war during the 1990's, but its company was credited with creating Javascript and SSL.
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What is Microsoft Teams?
This unified communications platform combines persistent workplace chat, video meetings, file storage, and application integration all while drawing comparisons to a similar platform, Slack.
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Who is Alan Turing?
This famous English mathmatician and father of theoretical computer science & AI was not fully recognised during his lifetime due to his homosexuality
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What is TCP/IP (or just TCP)?
Vint Serf and Robert Khan created this now ubiquitous protocol for DARPA in the 1970s which still powers the internet today.
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What is Google?
As of 2015 this company’s single code base was over 2 Billion lines of code and weighed in at 86 Terabytes, an amount so large that it has its own homegrown version control system.
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What is Skype (for Business)?
Created by a Swede and a Dane in 2003, this popular chat client was bought first by eBay and then by Microsoft in 2011 eventually replacing its Lync platform in 2015.
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What is Salesforce?
Headquartered in San Fransico, this cloud computing platform focuses on CRM recently bought Tableau to improve their data visualization offerings.
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Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
This English Engineer and computer scientist is best know for inventing the World Wide Web and HTML.
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What is Bootstrap?
Originally called Twitter Blueprint, this 3rd most starred project on github is a mobile-first, responsive css/JavaScript platform which is currently on its 4th iteration.
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