Quick Quiz
Microsoft used the code of what other web browser in their creation of Internet Explorer?
Mosaic
Who was Ada Lovelace?
Partner of Charles Babbage, she wrote the first “computer program”, shared the same ideas as Babbage
With the lack of firing tables during WWII, which invention was created to calculate artillery firing tables?
the ENIAC
The PDP-8 was the first successful minicomputer and was the size of a?
Refrigerator
What was a personal digital assistant (PDA)?
It was one of the first handheld computers
The principle that states that a steady increase in computing power every couple of years can be reasonably expected is which law?
Moore's Law
What was the Difference Engine and who invented it?
first computer/calculating device, quantitative processing, invented by Charles Babbage
Describe the publicity stunt of November 1952 with the UNIVAC computer
Remington Rand persuaded CBS to use the UNIVAC to predict the results of the presidential election on live television. The UNIVAC predicted results that didn’t seem correct. So to avoid the embarrassment, Rand and CBS decided to not announce the results of the UNIVAC, but instead a more “realistic” set of numbers. But the final outcome of votes was very close to the numbers the UNIVAC produced.
The ARPANET started with four branches. Name 2 out of the 4 branches. Hint: They are all universities
UCLA, UC at Santa Barbara, Stanford, and University of Utah
The iPod was introduced by Apple in which year?
2001
Both students at Stanford, Sergey Brin and which person founded Google?
Larry Page
Which machines, invented by Alan Turing, were used during WWII to decode German messages?
bombes
John Mauchly proposed the idea of a what to the University of Pennsylvania only to have his proposal ignored?
a high-speed electronic calculator
Why was BASIC helpful for university students?
BASIC allowed for students to get feedback fast on the correctness of their programs since BASIC was able to take one single line of code and immediately run it
Who was the inventor of bitcoin and blockchain?
Satoshi Nakamoto
The “plan preparation machine” was designed by who?
Konrad Zuse
Name 3 of the 4 Early Office Automation Devices
Typewriter, Filing Cabinets. Adding Machines, The Cash Register
Frederic Williams and Max Newman designed a new type of memory storage for the computer, a type of tube using cathode rays, called what?
the "Williams" tube
What was the name of the first spreadsheet?
VisiCalc
The World Wide Web was invented in which country by who?
Tim Bertans-Lee, Switzerland
Which individual was responsible for overseeing the early days of Project Whirlwind?
Jay Forrester
What was the computer that was created specifically to solve systems of linear equations, rather than general-purpose calculations?
ABC-Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Name 4 out of the 9 advances in hardware
Vacuum Tubes, Transistors, Microchips, Williams Tubes, Magnetic Drums, Core Memory, Punched Cards, Magnetic Tapes, Disk Storage
Who invented the Apple II with the help of Steve Jobs?
Steve Wozniak
Who was Gordon Moore?
co-founder of Intel, creator of ‘Moore’s Law