Ancient Computers
This French inventor created the Pascaline mechanical calculator in the 1600s.
Who is Blaise Pascal?
This computer scientist led the development of FORTRAN.
Who is John Backus?
This inventor helped create ENIAC, one of the first electronic general-purpose computers.
Who is J. Presper Eckert?
This Navy rear admiral helped develop COBOL and popularized machine-independent programming languages.
Who is Grace Hopper?
Alan Turing helped crack this German encryption machine during World War II.
What is Enigma?
This inventor designed the Analytical Engine, considered a precursor to modern computers.
Who is Charles Babbage?
This creator of the Java programming language worked at Sun Microsystems.
Who is James Gosling?
This British engineer designed Colossus, an early codebreaking computer during WWII.
Who is Tommy Flowers?
This NASA software engineer led development of the Apollo Guidance Computer software.
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
This test, created by Turing, measures whether a machine can imitate human conversation.
What is the Turing Test?
This woman wrote algorithms for Babbage’s machine and is considered the first programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This scientist co-developed the C programming language at Bell Labs.
Who is Dennis Ritchie?
This inventor is known for creating the World Wide Web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
This computer scientist helped create the Assembly language.
Who is Kathleen Booth?
Alan Turing worked at this British codebreaking center during WWII.
What is Bletchley Park?
This inventor created a loom controlled by punched cards, influencing early computing.
Who is Joseph Marie Jacquard?
This Danish programmer created C++.
Who is Bjarne Stroustrup?
This engineer co-created the TCP/IP protocols that power the internet.
Who is Bob Kahn?
This information scientist managed early internet directories before search engines existed.
Who is Elizabeth Feinler?
Alan Turing was born in this year.
What is 1912?
This engineer created a census tabulating machine using punched cards in the 1890 U.S. Census.
Who is Herman Hollerith?
This Microsoft engineer became famous for creating the C# language.
Who is Anders Hejlsberg?
This inventor demonstrated the computer mouse and hypertext in “The Mother of All Demos.”
Who is Douglas Engelbart?
This programmer helped develop FORMAC and became the first female president of ACM.
Who is Jean E. Sammett?
This 2014 movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch was based on Turing’s life.
What is The Imitation Game?