Artificial Intelligence
In 1997, this IBM computer defeated chess champion Garry Kasparov.
What is Deep Blue?
This term describes fraudulent messages designed to steal personal information.
What is phishing?
This pseudonymous creator released Bitcoin’s whitepaper in 2008.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
She is often considered the first programmer for her algorithm written in the 1840s.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Invented in 1947, this device replaced vacuum tubes and launched the modern electronics age.
What is the transistor?
This 1980 arcade game features a yellow character who eats dots while avoiding ghosts.
What is Pac-Man?
This IBM system beat human champions on Jeopardy! in 2011.
What is Watson?
Discovered in 2010, this worm targeted Iranian nuclear systems.
What is Stuxnet?
Google claimed this milestone in 2019, performing a computation far faster than classical computers.
What is quantum supremacy?
This actress helped invent the frequency-hopping concept behind Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
This 1958 invention by Jack Kilby combined multiple components into a single semiconductor chip.
What is the integrated circuit?
Released in 1996, this console launched franchises like Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye 007.
What is the Nintendo 64?
This DeepMind program defeated Go champion Lee Sedol in 2016.
What is AlphaGo?
This 2017 ransomware attack spread globally and crippled hospital systems.
What is WannaCry?
This company landed an orbital-class rocket vertically on Earth for the first time in 2015.
What is SpaceX?
These two Bell Labs researchers created the Unix operating system.
Who are Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie?
This early computer network sent its first message in 1969.
What is ARPANET?
Released in 2004, this online game became the world’s most iconic MMORPG.
What is World of Warcraft?
Released in 2022, this AI chatbot became the fastest-growing consumer application in history.
What is ChatGPT?
In 2013, this whistleblower leaked documents revealing global surveillance programs.
Who is Edward Snowden?
In 2021, Facebook changed its parent company name to this.
What is Meta?
These two computer scientists developed the TCP/IP protocols that underpin the internet.
Who are Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn?
This microprocessor, released in 1971, was the first to place a CPU on a single chip.
What is the Intel 4004?
This indie hit went viral in 2020 and uses social-deduction gameplay aboard a cartoon spaceship.
What is Among Us?
This 1950 test measures whether a machine can imitate human conversation.
What is the Turing Test?
This privacy-focused network is named for its layered routing that hides user identity.
What is Tor (The Onion Router)?
In 2022 (publicized in 2023), scientists achieved net energy gain from this energy source.
What is nuclear fusion?
She led NASA’s Apollo software engineering and coined the term “software engineering.”
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
This 19th-century mechanical device was designed as a programmable engine.
What is the Analytical Engine?
This 1993 game pioneered modern first-person shooters with its groundbreaking engine.
What is DOOM?