Informatics Set 7

Q1 | SPSS (originally, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a software program developed in the late 1960s by graduate students at……………… University

Q2 | ……………..is the data analysis package of choice for people wanting to analyze quantitative data.

Q3 | …………….for Windows is a comprehensive, interactive, generalpurposepackage for data analysis and it includes most routine statistical techniques.

Q4 | ………….is a true Windows package being mouse-driven with movable, scalable windows, drop-down menus and dialog boxes.

Q5 | In July……………, in order to improve the technology transfer, the Scilab Consortium joined the Digiteo Foundation

Q6 | ……………….. allows even inexperienced users to run complicated statistical analyses at the click of a few buttons.

Q7 | ……………is an open source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language.

Q8 | MATLAB code, which is similar in syntax, can be converted to…………...

Q9 | …………..is one of several open source alternatives to MATLAB.

Q10 | Scilab includes a free package called ………..for modeling and simulation of explicit and implicit dynamical systems, including both continuous and discrete sub-systems.

Q11 | ……….can be compared to Simulink from the MathWorks.

Q12 | Scilab syntax is largely based on the ………..language.

Q13 | The Scilab Consortium was formed in May ………. to broaden contributions and promote Scilab as worldwide reference software in academia and industry.

Q14 | In July 2008, in order to improve the technology transfer, the Scilab Consortium joined the……………...

Q15 | ………………….is a method by which a company can convert paper documents into digital format.a) Digital documentation b) Scilab c) Access Digital Data d) MATLAB 190.Indus script is a product of one of the largest ………….civilisations often referred to as the Harappan civilisation.

Q16 | ………….. Civilisation was distinguished for its highly utilitarian and standardised life style, excellent water management system and architecture.

Q17 | The first publication of a Harappan seal dates to 1873, in a drawing by………………..

Q18 | In the early 1970s, ………………published a corpus and concordance of Indus writing listing about 3700 seals and about 417 distinct signs inspecific patterns.

Q19 | ………………..thought that the Indus script was the archetype of the Brāhmī script.

Q20 | In May 2007, the Tamil Nadu Archaeological Department found pots with arrow-head symbols during an excavation in Melaperumpallam near………………….

Q21 | A computational study od Indus Script conducted by a joint Indo-US team led by Rajesh P N Rao of the University of ………………….., consisting of Iravatham Mahadevan and others from the Tata Instituteof Fundamental Research and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, was published in April 2009 in Science.

Q22 | The book ‘Deciphering the Indus Script’ was written by ……………

Q23 | The Finnish scholar ……………….led a Finnish team in the 1960s-80s that vied with Knorozov's Soviet team in investigating the Indus script using computer analysis.

Q24 | ‘South Indian History and Society Studies from Inscriptions A.D.850- 1800’ was written by …………………………

Q25 | …………………. initiated a joint research project on the “Socio – economic development in South India from the 13th century through the 18th century in 1984.