Pioneers in CS
Co-Founder and early CEO of the Microsoft company. Developed Altair BASIC for the MITS Altair that later developed into Microsoft BASIC.
Who is Bill Gates
The name given to the smallest unit of computing.
What is a bit
The most widespread of all consumer operating systems.
What is Microsoft Windows
Controls operations of all other parts of the computer.
What is Central Processing Unit(CPU)
The founding of this institution occurred in 1913.
What is Georgia State University?
English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist who is considered to be the father of computer science.
Who is Alan Turing
The two numbers that make up the binary system.
What is 0 and 1
A user interface that uses icons and a mouse.
What is Graphical User Interface(GUI)
Main high speed memory that holds data and instructions.
What is RAM
The meaning of the term F.A.A.N.G.
What is Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet (formerly known as Google).
Pioneered work on the necessity for high-level programming languages, which she termed automatic programming, and wrote the A-O compiler, which heavily influenced the COBOL language.
Who is Grace Hopper
Number System most commonly used in day to day life.
What is Decimal Number System
When more than 1 CPU is running at 1 time.
What is Multiprocessing
Part of the computer that holds the Memory and CPU.
What is Motherboard
The century in which the internet was first created.
What is 20th century
An English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
Who is the Ada Lovelace
The amount of bits in a byte.
What is 8 bits
Doing more than 1 thing in a single program.
What is Multithreading
Circuits that carry data from one area to another.
What is Busses
The very first "modern" general purpose computer.
What is ENIAC
The term "algorithm" is derived from the algorism, the technique of performing arithmetic with Hindu–Arabic numerals popularised by [blank] in his book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals.
Who is the Al-Khwarizmi
The amount of bytes in a Terabyte in terms of Kilobytes.
What is 10^9 Kilobytes
Basic operations that are needed for the function of a computer but not built directly into the hardware.
What is an Operating System
The observation that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.
What is Moore's Law
Programming language released on January 23, 1996(not Beta).
What is Java