Section 1
The three primary tasks of office automation equipment are:
1. Document creation
2. Information storage and Retrieval
3. ___________
a. Quantitative analysis
b. Sorting
c. Information summarization
d. Translation
e. There are only two primary tasks of office automation equipment
Eckert and Mauchly agreed to build a small computer, called the Binary Automatic Computer (BINAC) for what company?
Northrup Aircraft Company?
Who is the founder of Apple?
Steve Jobs
What was the nickname for the first cellphones?
Bricks
Who created the Differential Analyzer?
a. Alan Turing
b. Herman Hollerith
c. Konrad Zuse
d. Vannevar Bush
e. Howard Akien
d. Vannevar Bush
What year was the ENIAC patent invalidated?
a. 1945
b. 1958
c. 1973
d. 1999
e. 2001
c. 1973
What was the goal of Project Whirlwind?
Creating a flight simulator.
What was the new web browser Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina created at the University of Illinois in 1992 and 1993 called?
a. Windows
b. Bina
c. Mosaic
d. Tessellation
e. Montage
c. Mosaic
In pre-WW2 _______, a young engineer names Konrad Zuse was developing electromechianical computers on his own.
a. United States
b. England
c. Germany
d. Poland
e. Japan
c. Germany
About how many vacuum tubes did the ENIAC require?
a. 5,000
b. 2,000
c. 150
d. 25,000
e. 18,000
e. 18,000
___ _________ and Dennis Ritchie are co-developers of the Unix operating system.
a. JCR Licklider
b. Kenneth Olsen
c. Leonard Kleinrock
d. Ken Thomas
e. Donald Davis
d. Ken Thomas
In 1993, Jerry Yang and David ____ founded Yahoo.
Filo
Who proposed the Entscheidungsproblem in 1928?
a. David Hilbert
b. Charles Babbage
c. Ada Lovelace
d. Alonzo Church
e. Oliver Banker
a. David Hilbert
By fall of ______, the ENIAC was complete.
a. 1920
b. 1935
c. 1945
d. 1980
e. 1999
c. 1945
What does CTSS stand for?
Compatible time-sharing system.
Ted Nelson was inspired by an essay titled "_______________" written in 1945 by Vannevar Bush.
a. As We May Think
b. History of the Differential Analyzer
c. Technology as a Necessity
d. Hypothetical Machine
e. Revised Summary
a. As We May Think
What year was the Census first performed in the United States?
a. 1810
b. 1830
c. 1760
d. 1790
e. 1795
d. 1790
How old was John Mauchly when he, along with Goldstine and Eckert, presented their proposal to the directors of Aberdeen Proving Grounds on April 9, 1943?
a. 25
b. 24
c. 29
d. 35
e. 40
d. 35
Who was the creator of the Smalltalk programming language?
a. Douglas Englebart
b. Alan Kay
c. Robert Noyce
d. Gary Kildall
e. Tim Patterson
b. Alan Kay
What was the original name of Java?
Oak