Computers
This DEC system is considered the first minicomputer.
What is the PDP-8?
This person is considered the first "computer programmer".
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The creator of Facebook went to (and dropped out of) this prestigious university.
What is Harvard?
The program that turns human-written code into machine code.
What is a compiler?
WWW
World Wide Web
In 1952, the UNIVAC predicted the results of this national event.
What is the Presidential Election?
This person created the theoretical device which has all the essential characteristics of a modern computer and solves the Entscheidungsproblem.
Who is Alan Turing?
The university where the ENIAC was invented.
What is the University of Pennsylvania?
This is a program that coordinates all parts of the computer (memory, processor, drives, printers, etc.) and allows them to work together.
What is the operating system?
GPS
What is Global Positioning System?
What are firing tables?
This person is the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
This university has their own distribution of UNIX.
What is UC Berkeley?
This is the programming "paradigm" that involves separating programs into data structures called classes.
What is object-oriented programming?
EMCC
What is Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation
This part of the IBM PC was its only proprietary component, which caused third-party clones to reverse engineer it.
What is the BIOS?
This person is the computer scientist who advocated for timesharing and created the LISP programming language.
Who is John McCarthy?
This university utilized its own network called BITNET to connect to its university IBM mainframes.
What is City University of New York?
The process by which discrete packets of data are separately transmitted and reassembled at the destination.
What is store-and-forward packet switching.
CTSS
What is compatible time-sharing system?
The Xerox STAR utilized the GUI system to allow users to do this.
What is running commands by clicking on icons?
This is the pseudonym used by the creator of the blockchain and Bitcoin.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
This university was one of the few locations which held a copy of the differential analyzer.
What is University of Pennsylvania.
This is the technically accurate name for what people often refer to as "Linux".
What is GNU?
BASIC
What is beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code?