Programming Languages
This popular programming language, known for its readability, was named after the British comedy troupe
What is Python?
This test evaluates a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human.
What is the Turing Test?
The first "computer bug" was a real insect—this type of winged creature—found trapped in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.
What is a moth?
A key figure in the movie "Hidden Figures," this NASA mathematician's stunningly accurate orbital mechanics calculations were critical to the success of the first U.S. crewed spaceflights.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This company launched a "personal computer" in 1977 and later revolutionized the mobile industry with the release of the iPhone.
What is Apple?
This term describes syntax in a programming language that doesn't add new features but makes the code "sweeter" or easier for humans to write
What is syntactic sugar?
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, AI research suffered from a period of reduced funding and interest after a wave of hype failed to deliver on its promises.
What is an "AI Winter"?
Before the internet, this U.S. Department of Defense project was the first public packet-switched computer network and the first to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite.
What is ARPANET?
An engineer and inventor with over 300 patents, he led a team at Bell Labs that developed the world's first cellular mobile communication network, laying the groundwork for modern cell phones.
Who is Jesse Eugene Russell?
This company's software, including Premiere Pro and After Effects, is the industry standard for Hollywood video editing, and it created the ubiquitous PDF file format.
What is Adobe Inc.?
Created in just 10 days by Brendan Eich at Netscape, this language was originally named "Mocha" and was designed to be a lightweight scripting partner to Java in early web browsers.
What is JavaScript?
In 1997, IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue, famously defeated this reigning world champion in a landmark match.
Who is Garry Kasparov?
An observation made by Intel's co-founder, this "law" predicts that the number of transistors on a microchip will double approximately every two years, leading to exponential growth in computing power.
What is Moore's Law?
Along with Joy Buolamwini, this influential AI ethics researcher co-authored the landmark 2018 paper "Gender Shades," which revealed that commercial facial recognition AI was significantly less accurate for women of color.
Who is Dr. Timnit Gebru?
This company is the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, producing the advanced processors designed by Apple, NVIDIA, and AMD, making it a quiet giant of the tech world.
What is TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)?
Who invented this, high-level, general-purpose programming language made with object-oriented features to solve software engineering problems?
Who is Bjarne Stroustrup?
This is a type of machine learning where an "agent" learns to behave in an environment by performing actions and seeing the results, a method often compared to training a pet with treats.
What is Reinforcement Learning?
The NASDAQ Composite index hit its all-time high in March of this year before spectacularly crashing, marking the definitive burst of the dot-com bubble.
What is the year 2000?
This Guatemalan computer scientist, entrepreneur, and professor at Carnegie Mellon is the creator of CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA, and the co-founder of the popular language-learning app Duolingo.
Who is Luis von Ahn?
This data analytics and surveillance company is known for its secretive work with government agencies like the CIA and NSA, providing them with powerful data-sifting software like "Gotham."
What is Palantir Technologies? (if you work here you're evil lol)
This systems programming language, developed by Mozilla, is known for its focus on safety and performance, particularly its "borrow checker" which prevents data races at compile time.
What is Rust? 🦀
This CEO is a known "doomsday prepper," reportedly having a stockpile of guns, gold, and antibiotics ready in case of a synthetic virus, AI attack, or other apocalyptic scenarios.
Who is Sam Altman?
Called the "father of information theory," this mathematician's 1948 paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," introduced the concept of the "bit" as a unit of information and laid the groundwork for all digital communication.
Who is Claude Shannon?
Known as the "Godfather of Silicon Valley," he was a key leader at Hewlett-Packard in the 1960s, where he managed the team that developed the HP 2116A, one of the first minicomputers.
Who is Roy Clay Sr.?
In 2025, this notoriously secretive quantitative trading firm was banned from the Indian market and ordered to return over $500 million in profits for allegedly manipulating the Bank Nifty index.
Who is Jane Street Capital?