Ancient Computers
This French inventor created the Pascaline calculator
Who is Blaise Pascal?
his computer scientist helped create Java.
Who is James Gosling?T
This inventor helped create ENIAC, one of the first electronic computers.
Who is J. Presper Eckert?
This computer scientist helped develop COBOL.
Who is Grace Hopper?
Alan Turing was born in this year.
What is 1912?
This inventor used punch cards to control weaving machines.
Who is Joseph Marie Jacquard?
This programmer created the C programming language.
Who is Dennis Ritchie?
This inventor helped develop the first electronic digital computer.
Who is John Atanasoff?
This NASA engineer led the software team for the Apollo missions.
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
Turing helped crack this German code machine in World War II.
What is Enigma?
This man designed the Analytical Engine and is called the “Father of the Computer.”
Who is Charles Babbage?
This scientist developed C++.
Who is Bjarne Stroustrup?
This inventor created the computer mouse.
Who is Douglas Engelbart?
This scientist created FORMAC and became the first female president of ACM.
Who is Jean E. Sammet?
This test checks if a computer can imitate human thinking.
What is the Turing Test?
This woman wrote the first computer algorithm.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This IBM scientist led the creation of FORTRAN.
Who is John Backus?
This engineer designed Colossus, an early programmable computer.
Who is Tommy Flowers?
This scientist helped organize early internet domain names.
Who is Elizabeth Feinler?
Turing worked at this British codebreaking center during WWII.
What is Bletchley Park?
This engineer created programmable machines during the Islamic Golden Age.
Who is Al-Jaziri?
This scientist created the Pascal programming language.
Who is Niklaus Wirth?
This inventor created the World Wide Web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
This British computer scientist worked on early assembly language.
Who is Kathleen Booth?
This area of computer science studies what machines can solve.
What is computability theory?