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Alan Turing
100

 This French inventor created the Pascaline calculator
 

Who is Blaise Pascal?

100

his computer scientist helped create Java.

Who is James Gosling?T

100

This inventor helped create ENIAC, one of the first electronic computers.

Who is J. Presper Eckert?

100

This computer scientist helped develop COBOL.

Who is Grace Hopper?

100

Alan Turing was born in this year.

What is 1912?

200

This inventor used punch cards to control weaving machines.

Who is Joseph Marie Jacquard?

200

This programmer created the C programming language.

Who is Dennis Ritchie?

200

This inventor helped develop the first electronic digital computer.

Who is John Atanasoff?


200

This NASA engineer led the software team for the Apollo missions.

Who is Margaret Hamilton?

200

Turing helped crack this German code machine in World War II.

What is Enigma?

300

This man designed the Analytical Engine and is called the “Father of the Computer.”

Who is Charles Babbage?

300

This scientist developed C++.

Who is Bjarne Stroustrup?

300

This inventor created the computer mouse.

Who is Douglas Engelbart?

300

This scientist created FORMAC and became the first female president of ACM.

Who is Jean E. Sammet?

300

This test checks if a computer can imitate human thinking.

What is the Turing Test?

400

This woman wrote the first computer algorithm.

Who is Ada Lovelace?

400

 This IBM scientist led the creation of FORTRAN.

Who is John Backus? 

400

This engineer designed Colossus, an early programmable computer.

Who is Tommy Flowers?

400

This scientist helped organize early internet domain names.

Who is Elizabeth Feinler?

400

Turing worked at this British codebreaking center during WWII.

What is Bletchley Park?

500

This engineer created programmable machines during the Islamic Golden Age.

Who is Al-Jaziri?


500

This scientist created the Pascal programming language.

Who is Niklaus Wirth? 

500

This inventor created the World Wide Web.

Who is Tim Berners-Lee?

500

This British computer scientist worked on early assembly language.

Who is Kathleen Booth?

500

This area of computer science studies what machines can solve.

What is computability theory?

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