Famous Computer Scientists
The father of Computer Science
Who is Alan Turing?
A binary digit
What is BIT?
This language can be related to the movie "The Life of Brian"
What is Python?
The meaning of LLM
What is a complex model trained on vast amounts of text to understand and generate human-like language? It stands for Large Language Model.
The meaning of RGB
What is red, green, blue?
The first computer programmer
Who is Ada Lovelace
A set of rules that governs how data is formatted, addressed, transmitted, and routed so it can travel across networks and reach the correct destination
What is IP?
The first widely used, commercially available high-level language
What is FORTRAN?
A specialized database (e.g., Pinecone, Chroma, Milvus) optimized for storing and rapidly searching high-dimensional vector embeddings?
What is a vector database?
A specialized computer chip that does all the heavy lifting for images, acts like a second CPU built purely for math and visuals?
What is a GPU?
The inventor of the algorithm that serves as the backbone of modern GPS mapping and internet routing.
Who is Edsger Dijkstra?
The circuity in the CPU that handles math and decision-making
What is ALU?
SpaceX flight software is written primarily in this laguage.
What is C++?
The internal mathematical parameters of a neural network that control signal strength between neurons and the preferences toward a specific output.
What are weights and biases?
The computer process of turning a 3D model into a final 2D picture or animation
What is rendering?
The person who wrote a BASIC interpreters for the Intel 8080 CPU in 1975
Who is Bill Gates?
The Internet protocol that translates human-readable website names nto computer-readable numeric IP addresses
What is Domain Name System (DNS)?
This language was originally called "Oak" and was developed by Sun Microsystems
What is Java?
Invented in 2017 by Google, this neural network architecture uses self-attention mechanisms to process sequential data in parallel. It's the 'T' in GPT."
What is the Transformer Architecture?
A view of a 3D model showing only its connected vertices and lines, with no solid surfaces
What is wireframe?
The person who invented the concept and coined the term "compiler" in the early 1950s
Who is Grace Hopper?
A protocolthat makes it possible for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to connect their networks together and determine the best paths for data to travel across the global Internet
What is Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)?
This language serves as the universal translator between humans and data. It's often used in apps that use a relational database.
What is SQL?
Computer scientist who is frequently called the "Godfather of AI" for his pioneering work in deep learning and neural networks
Who is Geoffrey Hinton?
The process of projecting a 2D image onto a 3D model's surface
What is UV mapping?