Ancient Computers
Bef. 1900
Bef. 1900
He came up with the theory for boolean logic which would go on to become binary code in computers
Who is George Boole?
He was the founder and lead designer of the Java Programming Language
Who is James Gosling?
He invented the first electronic digital computer
Who is John Atanasoff?
She was the first to recognize that Charles Babbage's machine could be used for more than just performing calculations
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The country where Alan Turing was born
What is the United Kingdom?
He created the first mechanical computer and is considered to be the Father of the Computer
Who is Charles Babbage?
He is the creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the B programming language
Who is Dennis Ritchie?
He designed the first commercial computer in the United States, the UNIVAC
Who is J. Presper Eckert?
She discovered the theory of machine independent programming languages
Who is Grace Hopper?
The school where Alan Turing received his PhD
What is Princeton University?
He played the key role in the development of the first programmable loom
Who is Joseph Marie Jacquard?
He is the creator of Turbo Pascal and the current director of C# at Microsoft
Who is Anders Hejlsberg?
He is the founder of the area of Artificial Intelligence
Who is John McCarthy?
She wrote the first assembly language for computers and designed computers for Birkbeck College and the University of London
Who is Kathleen Booth?
Alan turing is widely considered the father of this discipline of computer science
What is Artificial Intelligence?
He is the creator of the Punched Card Tabulating Machine which was a semi-automatic data-processing machine
Who is Herman Hollerith?
He designed Colossus, the first programmable computer that could decipher German messages in World War II
Who is Tommy Flowers?
He is the inventor of the World Wide Web which allows the entire world to be connected through the Internet
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
She was the director of the software engineering department at MIT which developed the software on the rockets for the Apollo missions
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
This was Alan Turing's role during the Second World War
What is deciphering secret German messages?
He is one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator and the creator of the Pascal Calculator
Who is Blaise Pascal?
He invented the first widely-used, high-level programming language, FORTRAN
Who is John Backus?
He came up with the idea for Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol
Who is Bob Kahn?
She was the director of the group at Stanford that operated the Network Information Center for the ARPANET which would evolve into the Internet
Who is Elizabeth Feinler?
The currency that features the face of Alan Turing
What is the Bank of England £50 note?