Computer History
She is a Black female data scientist who invented the "Illusion Transmitter", which creates 3D visuals used by NASA, in surgeries and 3D movies and television.
Who is Valerie L. Thomas?
This command makes part of the code repeat a number of times
What is a Loop?
He created a machine to crack the German Enigma during World War 2, that eventually led us to create modern computers and also artificial intelligence.
Who is Alan Turing?
Typing without looking at your hands, but knowing where the keys are and finding them by feel and memory.
What is Touch Typing?
A 3D pretend world that exists inside a headset.
What is Virtual Reality (VR)?
The first commercially sold computer in the United States, in 1944.
What is the Harvard Mark 1 computer?
This type of command tells the computer what to do when a user engages by pressing a button, typing something or using a controller of any kind.
What are "Events"?
The Mother of Computer Programming
Who is Ada Lovelace?
A row on the typing keyboard, which you put your hands on to begin typing.
What is the Home Row?
When you teach a machine to think more like a human.
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
This famous mathematician wrote books popularizing Algebra and the Algorithm, which were named after him.
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
A set of ordered instructions to accomplish a task.
What is an Algorithm?
She solved the math that makes GPS accurate within 1 foot, by building a geodome (3D model of the Earth with height and depth for mountains, valleys and oceans), using Einsteins theories of Relativity and Special Relativity, to calculate for the rotation and movement of the Earth in orbit, in relation to the movement of vehicles on the surface of the planet and even the time differential, as time moves faster on a Satallite in orbit than it does in a car on the ground.
Who is Dr. Gladys Mae West?
These two letters have raised dashes on them, so that you can find them with your index fingers in order to place your fingers on the Home Row.
The F and the J.
This term describes the tools we use to communicate with computers.
What is the "interface"?
He created machines such as the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine, in the 1800's, which were mechanical machines that ran with no electricity and could do complex Mathematial calculations, then print out the equations on sheets of paper.
Who was Charles Babbage?
When you put a Loop inside of another Loop.
What is a Nested Loop?
The CEO of IBM, who helped develop the color monitor, the ISA bus (in 1981) and the 1 Gigahertz computer chip (in 1999). He holds 3 of the origianl 7 patents for the first IBM PC, released in 1981.
Who is Mark Dean?
How the speed you type is measured.
What is Words Per Minute (or WPM)?
When you mix Virtual Reality with reality.
What is Augmented Reality (AR)?
This spy and codebreaker was able to crack the codes of enemy countries during World Wars 1 & 2 and also worked for the FBI taking down Gangsters / Organized Crime organizations, by cracking the secret codes they sent their messages with.
Who was Elizabeth Friedman?
A named, reusable block of code that performs a specific task, by entering the name of that block, without having to write out the entire block of code each time.
What is a function?
She lead the team that developed COBOL, the first human language coding language, that used words instead of only random numbers and letters. She also carried around 1 nano-second strips of fiber optic cable (which are about 1 foot long).
Who is Grace Hopper?
You must press the keys Shift and 1 at the same time to get this symbol.
What is an exclamation point?
A technology that locates exactly where you are on the planet.
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)?