University of Manchester - EMACS at CO

Question

Alick Glennie made the Autocode programming language, considered the first compiled language, for a computer at this institution. Early versions of Ethernet all used an encoding named for this institution that transitions on each bit, where zeros are represented by a high-to-low transition and ones by a low-to-high transition. An early form of RAM called the Williams tube was invented at this institution, which was used by a team led by Tom Kilburn to build a computer called the “[this place] Baby”. (-5[1])Ferranti collaborated with this institution to commercially release one of their computers as the Ferranti Mark 1. It’s not Cambridge, but after World War II, (*) Alan Turing joined the computing laboratory at this university, where he spent the last several years of his life. For 10 points, give this university in a namesake British city that produced a lot of cotton during the Industrial Revolution. (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: University of Manchester [accept Victoria University of Manchester]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Kevin Wang	a neural-net processor; a thinking machine	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	81	-5
Dylan Minarik	Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins	Dianetics for Diabetics	146	10
Jerry Vinokurov	Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping	Macro Editors	147	10
Swapnil Garg	We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story	screaming into the public static void main(String[] args)	147	10
Geoffrey Chen	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	a neural-net processor; a thinking machine	147	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
EMACS at CO	08/06/2023	Y	4	100%	0%	25%	146.75
EMACS Online	10/01/2023	Y	5	60%	20%	40%	131.67