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American electronics engineer and computer programmer who, in 1976, co-founded Apple, Inc.
Who is Steve Wozniak?
Smallest atomic unit of information, common name for binary digit.
What is a bit?
Ubiquitous model showing progressive utility of data with application of various structures.
What is the Data-Information-Knowledge model?
Printed circuit board that forms the substrate upon through which all other components of a computer systems communicate.
What is the motherboard?
One computer is connected directly to another with an electrically conductive material, typically copper wire.
What is a peer-to-peer?
English computer scientist best known for inventing the internet.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
A unit of information commonly consisting of eight bits.
What is a byte?
Model showing basic computing systems architecture, proposed by John von Neumann circa 1945.
What is the the von Neumann model or Princeton architecture?
Initial instructions carried to out by a computer to ensure presence and function of all required components.
What is the power-on self-test (POST)?
Physical network topologies are a concern in this layer of the OSI Model.
What is the physical layer?
English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science.
Who is Alan Turing?
The actual number of bytes in one megabyte of information.
What is 1024?
Theoretical law describing the empirical regularity that the number of transistor on an integrated circuit doubles every two years.
What is Moore's Law?
Type of computer memory that is erased when power is lost, as with random access memory.
What is volatile memory?
Network connections are made with electromagnetic energy rather than physical conductive material.
What is a wireless network?
Devised the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created was later extended to create COBOL.
Who is Grace Murray Hopper RADM (ret.)?
Positional number system used as shorthand for binary notation, comprised numbers 0-9, and characters A-F.
What is hexadecimal?
A conceptual model characterising communication functions of a telecommunication or computing system.
What is the Open Systems Interconnection model (OSI model)?
Non-volatile long-term data storage device with no moving parts; may be internal or external.
What is a solid-state drive?
Local area network topology in which each node is connected to all other nodes.
What is a mesh network or meshnet?
English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, considered by some to be the father of the computer for describing the mechanical analytic engine, circa 1837.
Who is Charles Babbage?
A form of redundant information encoding used to protect against information loss induced by transmission noise.
What is Error Correction Code or Error Correcting Code (ECC)?
Developed by Claude E. Shannon (c.1948) as the scientific study of the quantification, storage, and communication of digital information.
What is Information Theory?
Electronic circuitry that executes the instructions of computer code (e.g., arithmetic, logic, controlling, input and output).
What is central processing unit (CPU)? Also called a central processor, main processor or just processor
Originally released in 1997, these standards are created and maintained by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) define media access control in the physical layer.
What is 802.11?