Before it was dismantled in December 2009, Mariposa botnet controlled over 12 million IP addresses making it one of the largest botnets in history. Mariposa refers to which winged creature?

On September 9, 1947, a team of computer scientists at Harvard University reported the world’s first computer bug. What was found to be the cause?

MIT graduate student Lauren Ramlan successfully displayed the game DOOM! on a grid of glowing E. Coli cells. What was the frame rate per second (fps)?

Xanthoria elegans is a type of lichen noteworthy for having survived 18 months in which harsh environment?

In 2003, data scientist Dr. Pak Chung Wong and his colleagues encoded the lyrics to It's a Small World After All into the genome of this radiation-resistant bacterium:

Thinking along the lines of hardware and software, what broad term refers computational devices composed of chemical or biological materials?

The Beal Seed Experiment was designed to test the viability of common weed seeds over time. As of 2024, how many years has it been in progress?

Biodegradable batteries and electronics that incorporate fungal mycelium as a major component are collectively referred to as what?

This professor and director of the Unconventional Computing Laboratory is known for his experimental research in creating fungal "mushroom" computers:

What is the common name for the family of plants that includes eggplant, tobacco, and datura? It's also the name of an image poisoning tool for disrupting generative AI models that scrape images without consent.

Some farm, some forage, some take advantage of resources ready at hand, but all of them: Spcl vmm aol shuk