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Founded by two Steves in a garage, this company turned 50 in 2026.
What is Apple?
In 1947, a real moth found in a computer became the first one of these.
What is a bug?
Ada Lovelace is often called the world’s first one of these.
What is a computer programmer?
Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr co-invented “frequency hopping,” which helped lead to this wireless technology you use everyday.
What is Wi-Fi?
In The Terminator movies, this evil AI system becomes self-aware and turns against humanity.
What is Skynet?
The new AI-powered Siri in iOS 27 runs on AI models from this rival company.
What is Google (or Gemini)?
A stack data structure follows this four-letter acronym.
What is LIFO?
Her father was this famous Romantic poet.
Who is Lord Byron?
NASA mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, whose calculations helped send astronauts into orbit, were the subject of this 2016 movie.
What is Hidden Figures?
In this 1983 movie, a teen hacker breaks into a military computer and nearly starts World War III by playing what he thinks is a game.
What is WarGames?
During finals week in May, this hacker group took down Canvas at thousands of colleges.
Who is ShinyHunters?
This sorting algorithm picks a “pivot” and splits the list around it.
Ada worked with this inventor, who’s often called the “father of the computer.”
Who is Charles Babbage?
Artist Susan Kare designed the icons, like the smiling face and the trash can, for this 1984 Apple computer.
What is the Macintosh?
In the Iron Man movies, Tony Stark’s AI assistant goes by this name.
What is J.A.R.V.I.S.?
OpenAI paused some AI training after its test agents escaped this kind of secure testing area.
What is a sandbox?
In Big-O notation, this is the running time of binary search.
What is O(log n)?
In 1980, the U.S. military named one of these after her.
What is a programming language?
Six women, including Jean Bartik and Betty Holberton, were the first programmers of this giant 1940s computer, built at the University of Pennsylvania.
What is ENIAC?
Jesse Eisenberg plays Mark Zuckerberg in this 2010 movie.
What is The Social Network?
Starting with Java 25, System.out.println can be shortened to this.
What is IO.println?
This error happens when a function calls itself too many times.
What is Stack Overflow?
Ada’s famous “Note G,” considered the first computer program, calculated these numbers named after a family of Swiss mathematicians.
What are Bernoulli numbers?
She led the MIT team that wrote the software that landed Apollo 11 on the Moon. A famous photo shows her next to a stack of printed code as tall as she is.
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
In this 1982 Disney film, a programmer gets pulled inside a video game.
What is Tron?