Indian Contributions to Computing
| Description: This quiz is designed to test your knowledge of the significant contributions made by Indian individuals and institutions to the field of computing. | |
| Number of Questions: 15 | |
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Who is widely regarded as the "Father of the Indian Computer Revolution"?
Which Indian mathematician is known for his contributions to the field of computer science, particularly in the areas of algorithms and complexity theory?
Which Indian institution is recognized as a pioneer in the development of computer science education and research in India?
Who is known for developing the concept of the "backtracking algorithm" and its application in solving various combinatorial problems?
Which Indian-American computer scientist is known for his contributions to the field of distributed computing and the development of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) mechanism?
Who is the recipient of the prestigious Turing Award in 2007 for his contributions to the field of cryptography, particularly for his work on probabilistic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs?
Which Indian-American computer scientist is known for his work on computer vision, particularly in the areas of object recognition and image understanding?
Who is the founder of Infosys, one of India's largest IT companies, and is known for his contributions to the growth of the Indian IT industry?
Which Indian company is known for its contributions to the development of low-cost computing solutions and the launch of the world's cheapest tablet computer, the Aakash tablet?
Who is known for his contributions to the field of natural language processing and machine translation, particularly for his work on the statistical machine translation model?
Which Indian-American computer scientist is known for his contributions to the field of computer architecture, particularly for his work on superscalar and out-of-order execution in microprocessors?
Who is known for his work on computer graphics and visualization, particularly for his contributions to the development of the Phong shading model?
Which Indian-American computer scientist is known for his work on computer networking and the development of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), the foundation of the Internet?
Who is known for his work on artificial intelligence and natural language processing, particularly for his contributions to the development of the SHRUTI natural language understanding system?
Which Indian-American computer scientist is known for his work on computer architecture and the development of the RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) architecture, which led to the development of modern microprocessors?