History
The earliest known calculating device, consisting of adjustable beads.
The number of bits in a byte.
What is 8?
This general-purpose scripting language has a recursive acronym.
What is PHP?
An English mathematician who was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, he proposed a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to that of a human.
Who is Alan Turing?
This two-word term is given to a software developer that can work on the frontend and backend.
The name of the first computer, shortened to ENIAC.
What is the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer?
A combinational digital circuit that performs arithmetic and bitwise operations on integer binary numbers, abbreviated to ALU.
What is an Arithmetic Logic Unit?
This language was developed in the early 1980s by a team headed by Dr. Jean Ichbiah at CII-Honeywell-Bull in France. It was named after a mathematician, who is also considered to be the first programmer.
What is Ada?
The creator of the 'The Analytical Engine.' His ideas were some of the first that led to the creation of computers.
Who is Charles Babbage?
Unicode, the standard for character encoding used to represent multilingual text as binary, is the successor of this US encoding standard.
What is ASCII?
The observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles about every two years.
What is Moore's Law?
A communication system within a computer or between computers that transfers data between different components.
What is a bus?
This software framework that was developed and maintained by Microsoft was first built in the late 1990s, and continues to primarily run on Windows machines with the C# language.
What is .NET?
A Dutch computer scientist who pioneered the shortest path algorithm and coined the term "structured programming".
Who is Edsger Dijsktra?
When applied to software, this term means that an AI model has produced an answer that is plausible, but factually incorrect and/or unrelated to the question asked.
What is hallucination?
The first general-purpose electronic digital computer design for business application produced in the United States.
What is the UNIVAC?
A circuit that maintains a state until directed by input to change the state, or the basic digital memory circuit.
What is a flip-flop?
This logic-based programming language was developed in 1972 and is known for being the first of its kind to allow backtracking and nested queries.
What is Prolog?
An American physicist who, alongside J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC.
Who is John William Mauchly?
Originally intended to be named Freax, Finnish American software engineer Linus Torvalds is best known as the creator of this piece of open-source software.
What is Linux?
This early natural language processing computer program, developed from 1964 to 1967 at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaumm, is considered one of the first chatbots.
What is ELIZA?
An event that occurs when a requested page is not in main memory.
What is a page fault?
Inspired by Ruby and Go, this general-purpose object-oriented programming language first appeared in 2014, and was originally named Joy.
What is Crystal?
The first woman to win the Turing Award, for her work in high-performance computing.
Who is Frances E. Allen?
This seven-letter acronym describes editing software that allows users to see content as it would appear when displayed on an interface, webpage, printed document, etc.
What is What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)?