Info Processing
programability
This town in Maryland was the site for creating large-scale firing tables
Aberdeen
The acronym BASIC stands for this
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
Users of the first cellular phones gave them this nickname
brick
This entrepreneur founded both Silicon Graphics and Netscape Communications Corporation
Jim Clark
The weight of the Harvard Mark I
This company created the first high-level programming language
IBM
PARC developed this object-oriented programming language
Smalltalk
By 2011, Apple sold over this many iPhones
This programmer used a NeXT computer to implement the first web browser
Tim Berners-Lee
The business practice the National Cash Register Company created a school to teach
salesmanship
The EDSAC used this for memory instead of Williams tubes
mercury delay lines
Project Whirlwind became known as this after IBM gained the rights to it
AN/FSQ-7
Bitcoin is an application of this technology
Blockchain
Before joining PARC, Robert Taylor had gained experience as the director of this organization
Advanced Projects Research Agency (ARPA)
The reason the German Army rejected Konrad Zuse's funding proposal
LISP uses this distinctive type of syntax
nested syntax
Although limited technically, the Altair 8800 demonstrated this to the personal computing industry
demand for affordable personal computers
Virtualization was used in this prior to cloud computing
mainframe computers
Fred Brooks wrote this famous collection of essays
The Mythical Man Month
Aside from being mechanical, the Differential Analyzer, the Mark I, and the ABC are categorized differently from modern general purpose computers for this reason
lack of conditional branching
The decade in which integrated circuits became the most common processor in commercial computers
1970s
The PDP-11 inspired the pattern of this microprocessor
Motorola 68000
AI researchers have shifted away from this approach and towards machine learning
simulating formal logic
These six programmers were the first programmers of the ENIAC
Frances Bilas Spence, Jean Bartik, Elizabeth Snyder Holberton, Ruch Lichterman Teitelbaum, Katherine McNulty, and Marlyn Meltzer