Ancient Computers
Programming Languages
Milestones
Great Women of Computer Science
Alan Turing
100

the man is considered to be the "father of the computer".

Who is Charles Babbage?

100

This person created the Java Language.

Who is James Gosling?

100

this person is best known for their invention, the world wide web.

Who is Tim Berners-Lee?

100

this woman wrote the first assembly language.

Who is Kathleen Booth?

100

Alan Turing was the considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and this

What is Artificial Intelligence?

200

The creator of boolean algebra and credited for the foundation of the information age.

Who is George Boole?

200

This person created the C programming language.

Who is Dennis Ritchie?

200
this man designed and built the colossus computer.

Who is Tommy Flowers?

200

this woman was the director of the team that developed the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program.

Who is Margaret Hamilton?

200

This law passed in 2017, was used to retroactively pardon men cautioned and convicted under historical legislation that outlawed homosexual acts.

What is the Alan Turing law?

300

the man is regarded as the "father of modern automatic computation"

Who is Herman Hollerith?

300

This person created the first widely used high-level programming language.

Who is John Backus?

300

this person created the first electronic digital computer.

Who is John Atanasoff?

300

This woman while developing multiple languages, was also, at one point, a US Navy rear admiral.

Who is Grace Hopper?

300

Alan Turing, as of the 23 of June 2021 appears on  

this £ bill.

What is the £50 bill?

400

This person created the earliest programmable loom.

Who is Joseph Marie Jacquard?

400

This Danish software engineer was the original author of Turbo Pascal.

Who is Anders Hejlsberg?

400

this person designed the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.

Who is J. Presper Eckert?

400

This woman was known for working on the Analytical Engine.

Who is Ada Lovelace?

400

Alan Turing studied at this school to study mathematics in 1931

What is the University of Cambridge?

500

Known as the "father of robotics" this man used hydropower to drive automated peacocks.

Who is Ismail al-Jazari?

500

This woman computer scientist developed the FORMAC programming Language.

Who is Jean E. Sammet?

500

This person was best known for their work founding the field of human-computer interaction.

Who is Douglas Engelbart?


500

this woman was the principal investigator running the NIC for the ARPANET.

Who is Elizabeth Feinler?

500

later in life, Turing went into this field of biology.

What is mathematical biology?

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