1 wrote a very carefully crafted and complicated piece of software and released it in late 80s, which made him hugely infamous. His release was one of the first instances of this kind of software. Although he got into decent trouble for this release, he came out of it and he now teaches in a very distinguished univ. He is more or less worshiped in geek circles for his skills. Enough of background info, now for the question

Connect

1. 2.

Cracked by: Dibyo , madhur , udupendra , duriel and shashank.

Dibyo, madhur, udupendra, duriel and shashank

Lets start the weekend with a simple question :)
Sent in by shashank . Thanks dude! (Mail in your questions to [email protected] )

What does the above map show

Cracked by: pratap , duriel , Dibyo , gammafunction(Welcome back!) , piezocake , yaksha , shyam , Tathagata Chatterjee , nishansolo , jayanth , Prasad , udupendra , BiGFooT , Uma.

pratap, duriel, Dibyo, gammafunction, piezocake, yaksha, shashank, shyam, Tathagata Chatterjee, nishansolo, jayanth, Prasad, udupendra, BiGFooT and Uma

Connect. (Not really a list, not exhaustive).

Cracked by: madhur , Dibyo , BiGFooT , duriel , Prasad and shashank.

madhur, Dibyo, BiGFooT, duriel, Prasad and shashank

1 invented a programming language X in mid 90s.
2 used X and created Y when he was working for a company, which has a product named after 3.
2’s work on Y shot X into limelight very recently. Identify 1,2,X and Y.

1. 2.
2. 

Hint: In 3, do not look at the mountains alone :)

Cracked by: udupendra , duriel , madhur , quantumfoammakesmeroamakhi , pratap , Ganesh Prasad , Dibyo , varuns88 , shenoyvarun86 , shyam , jayanth , prasanth , shivathilak , Vinod P.V , shashank , BiGFooT , yaksha , svgreatest and sidsen.

udupendra, duriel, madhur, akhi, pratap, Ganesh Prasad, Dibyo, varuns88, shenoyvarun86, shyam, jayanth, prasanth, shivathilak, Vinod P.V, shashank, BiGFooT, yaksha, svgreatest and sidsen

Old fashioned question… You either know it or you don’t :). Connect.

Cracked by: duriel , RahulRanade , Tathagata Chatterjee , bobo , prasanth , jayanth , Dibyo , madhur and shashan.

duriel, RahulRanade, Tathagata Chatterjee, bobo, prasanth, jayanth, Dibyo, madhur and shashank

2 was one of the first and most successful products of the company co-founded by the dude in 1.

Identify 1 and 2

1. 2.

Although many did not identify 2 properly, anyone who got 1 has been given points. Namely: nishansolo , varuns88 , duriel , Dibyo , Ranjana Ninan , Shreyas , quantumfoammakesmeroamakhi , shivathilak , shenoyvarun86 , RajT , udupendra , bobo , Tathagata Chatterjee , prasanth , jayanth and shashank.

1. Masaru Ibuka, co-founder of Sony Corp

2. TR 6

Sony’s “Transistor” series of radios made the word “Transistor” synonymous with radio. Apparently, when Sony came up with the company name, they wanted a word “not existing in any language”. They have apparently even won law-suites which claimed the word existed in some language.

If anyone here is feeling litigious, Sony (Soni) is surely a Punjabi word :)

nishansolo, varuns88, duriel, Dibyo, Ranjana Ninan, Shreyas, akhi, shivathilak, shenoyvarun86, RajT, udupendra, bobo, Tathagata Chatterjee, prasanth, jayanth and shashank

(1) and (2) developed an algorithm, that (3) later optimized and patented. (3)’s patent was granted in the name of Sperry Corporation (that later, through a series of unfortunate events, became Unisys). The company X, unaware of the patent, chose this technique to implement their famous format Y.

X, however, went nuts and decided to require everyone who used Y to pay them (and Unisys) money for using their format. This caused much IT industry uproar and melodrama that went against X and, some believe, eventually lead to X’s downfall.

Now, identify 1, 2, 3 and name the company X and the format Y.

Cracked by: udupendra , pratap , madhur , duriel , shyam , Shakeel , Dibyo , piezocake , Keerthi Kiran M , shivathilak , RajT , jayanth , yaksha , prasanth , nishansolo , shenoyvarun86 , Ganesh Prasad and Tathagata Chatterje.

udupendra, pratap, madhur, duriel, shyam, Shakeel, Dibyo, piezocake, Keerthi Kiran M, shivathilak, RajT, jayanth, yaksha, prasanth, nishansolo, shenoyvarun86, Ganesh Prasad and Tathagata Chatterjee

Identify the guy circled in red. You can ignore the others :)

This guy was all over the news recently. And oh.. here is another one

For a random guy, he sure is famous. Cracked by a huge bunch: madhur , Dibyo , Ganesh Prasad , vaibhav008 , udupendra , Swetha , prasanth , shivathilak , Atul Mathew , RajT , quantumfoammakesmeroamakhi , duriel and yaksha.

madhur, Dibyo, Ganesh Prasad, vaibhav008, udupendra, Swetha, prasanth, shivathilak, Atul Mathew, RajT, akhi, duriel and yaksha

The guy in 1 created X which is considered the ultimate geek toy. 2,3,4 are his less famous creations among many others.

1. 

2. 3. 4.

Identify 1 and X

Cracked by: madhur , jayanth , nishansolo , Atul Mathew , Dibyo , Arun Krishnamoorthy , shenoyvarun86 , udupendra , Arjun Chennu , duriel , Dhananjay , RajT , Tathagata Chatterjee , shashank , vaibhav008 , varuns88( Welcome to BB! ) and Shreyas.

madhur, jayanth, nishansolo, Atul Mathew, Dibyo, Arun Krishnamoorthy, shenoyvarun86, udupendra, Arjun Chennu, duriel, Dhananjay, RajT, Tathagata Chatterjee, shashank, vaibhav008, varuns88 and Shreyas

Identify the artist and the works below his picture. Also, name the work of his that’s missing from this set .

Cracked in entirety by: madhur , duriel , Dibyo , jayanth , udupendra and arbitguy.

madhur, duriel, Dibyo, jayanth, udupendra and arbitguy