Innovations
This was a theoretical device that has most components of a modern computer and was proposed by Alan Turing.
What is the Turing Machine
A German mathematician who proposed the entscheidungsproblem?
Who is David Hilbert?
This event occurred in the 1980s after a boom of interest in personalized computers exploded the computer market.
What is the Computer Revolution
What is the difference between and electric and electronic computers. (does not have to be in question form)
Electric things have moving parts while electronic things do not.
This company was originally C-T-R, but was renamed to this by Thomas J Watson.
What is IBM
This process was proposed by John McCarthy where multiple users could access a computer at the same time, and was used in CTSS and BASIC.
What is Timesharing?
This guy created the typewriter, which was later manufactured by Philo Remington.
Who is Christopher Latham Sholes
What is World War 2
This mini-computing device was used to play music in the early 2000s.
What is an mp3 player
This search engine was created by Jerry Yang and David Filo.
What is Yahoo
Although produced in 1982, this computer still holds the record for the best-selling desktop computer of all time.
What is the Commodore 64
This person created the JAVA programming language.
Who is James Gosling
This event was disputed between EMCC and Sperry Rand claiming that this Patent covered all electronic computers, and was closed in 1972
What is the ENIAC Patent Case
This air defense system was led by IBM and spread across 23 air force sites
What is SAGE
This company was created by Steve Jobs after being fired from apple, and produced high-end computers.
What is neXT
This is a protocol for high-speed networking and was made by Xerox PARC.
What is the Ethernet
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!This person created the Apple II computer--which was the first mass-produced computer.
WHO IS STEVE WOZNIAK
This event was initially caused by the creation of Linux and involved the trustbusting over Unix.
What is the breaking of AT&T's monopoly.
A computer language that uses this format: A 25 S
What is an Assembly Language
This company created the first minicomputers-like the PDP-11
What is Digital Equipment Corporation(DEC)
This is a hypertext system inspired by Vannevar Bush's memex and was created by Ted Nelson.
What is Xanadu
This is the founder of DEC
Who is Kenneth Olsen
This lawsuit was over the use of Java's API, with one company arguing over fair use claims and the other arguing over copywriting infringement.
What is Oracle VS Google
This a new area of research where the basic units of computers are represented by the position of electrons instead of low/high voltage.
What is Quantum Computing?
This company was founded by Jim Clark and was denied forming a business with Mosaic.
What is Silicon Graphics