Ancient Computers (before 1900)
The First Computer Programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This man is known for inventing the C++ computer language.
Who is Bjarne Stroustrup?
The inventor of the World Wide Web
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
This person invented the influential FORMAC programming language.
Who is Jean E Sammett?
Alan Turing made a game with various human judges that would determine to see if a computer is "intelligent" by seeing if it could fool the human judges into thinking it is human.
What is the Turing Test?
This person invented the first mechanical calculator.
Who is Blaise Pascal?
Widely considered the Father of Java.
Who is James Gosling?
The creator of the first electronic digital computer.
Who is John Atanasoff?
She helped build the early parts of the internet and managed the names of various websites (I.E. .com, .org, .gov etc).
Who is Elizabeth Feinler?
Alan Turing theorized about a hypothesis about a computer with infinite memory because he wanted to determine the limits of a computer.
What is the Turing Machine?
Invented Boolean algebra and paved the way for True and False statements in coding.
Who is George Boole?
This man impacted all computers by inventing the C programming language
Who is Dennis Ritchie?
The creator of the first general-purpose electronic computer, a prototype that most computers today are based on.
This person helped develop the first commercial electronic computer and worked in the navy.
Who is Grace Hopper?
Alan Turing's efforts to determine the limits of computation, and formalize computability.
What is the Church-Turing Thesis?
This Frenchman invented a loom that automated the weaving of cloth.
Known for creating C#, Turbo Pascal, Typescript, and Delphi.
Who is Anders Hejlsberg?
This person invented the computer mouse.
Who is Douglas Engelbart?
This person wrote code for NASA and was one of the first software engineers, she also created the term "computer engineer".
Alan Turing's died in this year.
What is 1954?
This man is a Muslim inventor known for making automatons in the 12th Century and for being the "father of robotics".
Who is al-Jaziri?
The inventor of one of the first widely used programming language in history
Who is John Backus?
This man is famously credited with conceiving the first automatic digital computer and for being the "Father of Computers".
Who is Charles Babbage?
The person who invented the first assembly language.
Who is Kathleen Booth?
Alan Turing made an electromechanical computer to crack the Enigma machines.
What is the Bombe?