Tech History
This brainy French guy, barely out of his teens, whipped up the "Pascaline" in 1642 – basically, the great-great-great-grandparent of your calculator!
Who was Blaise Pascal?
If your digital device were a superhero, this "brain" part would be its super-speedy commander, telling everything what to do!
What is the central processing unit (CPU)?
Look super close at any digital picture – you'll see it's made up of tiny, colorful squares. What are these little guys called?
What are pixels?
A computer connection contained within a single building, also known as a LAN
What is a local area network?
AI is used by many companies to help answer customer questions automatically, a role also known as a chat_______.
What is a chatbot?
Before computers could think, this English logician came up with the "true or false" rules (AND, OR, NOT) in the 1840s, laying the groundwork for all digital decisions!
Who was George Boole?
Forget kilohertz! Today's speedy processors are measured in this amazing unit, meaning they can do billions of things every single second. Zap!
What is a gigahertz (GHz)?
Before it becomes awesome information, all those letters, numbers, and symbols are just raw stuff waiting to be organized. What is this raw stuff called?
What is data?
Every device connected to the internet can be identified by its unique address, which looks something like 23.67.61.152
What is an IP address?
Besides text and images, GenAI can create this from a few simple instructions, making it a great tool for a budding musician.
What is music?
This American whiz helped the U.S. government count people super fast in 1890 using punched cards – his company later became a giant known as IBM!
Who was Herman Hollerith?
Your computer has two types of memory: one is like a permanent diary (ROM) and the other is like a temporary notepad (RAM) that clears itself when you turn it off. Name them!
What are read-only memory and random-access memory?
When you shrink a picture file and some of the original amazing detail gets lost forever (making it a little fuzzy), you've used this type of compression!
What is lossy compression?
This refers to the "cloud" of powerful computers (servers) that provide temporary software over the internet
What is cloud computing?
Whats does the two letters "AI" stand for in the word GenAI?
Artificial Intelligence
Way back in 1969, the U.S. Department of Defense launched this small, super-secret network that eventually grew up to become the internet we all use today!
What is ARPANET?
Imagine a super-team of four brains all working together on one tiny computer chip! That's what you get with a "quad-core" version of this type of processor.
What is a multi-core CPU?
This special secret code lets computers understand text by giving a unique number to every letter and symbol. It's like a secret language between you and your keyboard!
What is ASCII?
When you see "https" at the beginning of a URL, the "s" stands for this, meaning the information is encrypted
What is secure?
This is a fancy name for the huge amount of text, images, or code that an AI "studies" to learn.
Training Data