Tech Maze Key

1. Lena’s image is the most widely used test image for all sorts of image processing algorithms (such as compression and denoising) and related scientific publications.

2. Facebook

3. Intel Corporation is an American global technology company and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue.

4. I Think Therefore I am. Ittiam Systems is an Embedded Software and Systems Design Company which specializes in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) based applications in Multimedia and Communications domains. It has a global customer base of over 300 companies in OEM / ODM industry and ASIC / SOC industry.

5. William Edwards Deming (1900 – 1993) was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. Deming made a significant contribution to Japan's later reputation for innovative high-quality products and its economic power. He is regarded as having had more impact upon Japanese manufacturing and business than any other individual not of Japanese heritage.

6. In Poland, journalists were taken in a submarine to experience "a world without Windows." Over 70,000 people tuned in to watch the launch event live via satellite. The Empire State Building in New York City was even lit up with the Windows 95 logo. The launch was a hit with coverage in all channels of media of Windows 95 arrival, which would usher in a new era in computing.

7. Thomas John Watson, Sr. (1874 – 1956) was the president of International Business Machines (IBM), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956.

8. The One Laptop per Child Association, Inc. (OLPC) is a U.S. non-profit organization set up to oversee the creation of an affordable educational device for use in the developing world. OLPC is a non-profit organization funded by member organizations such as AMD, eBay, Google, News Corporation, Red Hat, and Marvell.

9. Sean Parker (Born 1979) is an American Internet technology businessman and entrepreneur. In 1999, he co-founded Napster, a free file-sharing service for music that drew the ire of recording labels and the Recording Industry Association of America. Lawsuits by various industry associations eventually shut down the service. His father began teaching him programming at the age of 7, and when he was 16 he was sentenced to community service for hacking.

10. ©Brain (the industry standard name being Brain) is, in its first incarnation written in January 1986, considered to be the first computer virus for MS-DOS. It infects the boot sector of storage media formatted with the DOS File Allocation Table (FAT) file system. Basit Alvis and Amjad Alvis (Nationality: Pakistan) were the creators of this first ever computer virus.