Ancient Computers
Al-Jazari designed and constructed the castle clock, an early programmable automaton that used this to orchestrate moving musicians mechanically.
What is a Camshaft
John McCarthy invented Lisp in 1958, which became the standard language for this common software that everyone uses
What is Artificial Intelligence?
John Atanasoff made the first electronic digital computer.
What is the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
Kathleen Booth wrote the first assembly language and designed the assembler for this computer.
What is an ACR computer?
Alan Turing's College is beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade.
Where is King's College, Cambridge
George Boole published the mathematical laws of Boolean algebra in this year
When is 1847
Bjarne Stroustrup developed this in 1938
What is C++
Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline
Who invented the first mechanical calculators
Elizabeth Fienler managed the Network Information Center at this place
What is SRI International
Another approach to solving the decision problem
What is the Turning Machine
Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline in this year
When is 1642
John Backus led this team, which created FORTRAN in 1957, the first widely used high-level language.
What is IBM
Tommy Flowers designed this, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, which was used for codebraking
What is the Colossus
Grace Hopper developed this for a computer programming language.
What is a compiler
It is more powerful than the Turning Machine
What is Turning Complete
Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the Jacquard loom in this year
When is 1804
Ada Lovelace wrote the first machine algorithm in this year
When is 1843
Al-Jaziri invented early automata and programmable machines such as this.
What is the castle clock?
Margaret Hamilton led the team at MIT that developed the onboard flight software for this space mission
What is NASA's Apollo space missions?
The concurrent efforts by Church and Turing to determine the limits of computation, and in general, formalize computability.
What is the Church-Turning Thesis
Herman Hollerith developed this machine to process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.
What is an Electromechanical Tabulating machine
Kathleen Booth invented this in 1947, being the first of its kind
What is Assembly language
Herman Hollerith invented the electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards, which led to the founding of this company
What is IBM
Jean E. Sammet developed this Programming Language
What is FORMAC
Alan Turning's career began in this year
What is 1936