Personal Facts
What branch of the military was Grace Hopper in?
the Navy
What was the CDC6000?
the fastest computer of its time, made by Seymour Cray
Herbert A. Simon was the father of _______.
Artificial Intelligence
Licklider died at what age?
75
What does HTTP stand for?
Where did Seymour Cray graduate from?
University of Minnesota
What was Licklider’s contribution to modern science and technology?
He formed the earliest ideas for global networking A.K.A the internet
There are around ______ million python users.
8.2
How old was Seymour Cray when he died?
71
What programming language was created by Guido van Rossum?
Python
What college did Bill Gates attend?
Harvard
Who invented the world’s first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3?
Konrad Zuse
Herbert A. Simon pursued his career in applying ___ to computers.
When was the Gates Foundation founded?
1994
What did Thompson and Ritchie develop that was benefical to computers?
UNIX
True or False: Herbert A. Simon’s family was extremely religious and did not want him to study.
False
What is a test for intelligence in a computer, requiring that a human being be unable to distinguish the machine from another human being by using the replies to questions put to both?
Turing Test
JCR Licklider laid down the groundwork for the _____ ______.
modern internet
When was Konrad Zuse born?
1910
What does MS-DOS stand for?
Microsoft Disk Operating System
How Many Children did Licklider have?
2
Who won the Turing award in 1975?
Herbert A Simon
Alan Turing died of ____ ______.
cyanide poisoning
How old is Tim Berners-Lee
68
What does URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator