What does a
Computer do?
Computer do?
A computing device making a change on a display, in audio, or in lights is an example of this.
What is output?
This component executes general-purpose program instructions and general mathematics.
What is a CPU?
Computer chips begin with this element, which we get from sand.
What is Silicon?
These are the only two digits used in binary.
What are 0 and 1?
This gate outputs 1 only when both inputs are 1.
What is AND?
Ada Lovelace wrote a program for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, including an algorithm for calculating Bernoulli numbers.
What are the 1840s?
The temperature being read by a thermostat is an example of this.
What is input?
This processor is especially good at many similar calculations at once and is often used for gaming and video rendering.
What is a GPU?
The thin disk of silicon used to manufacture chips is called this.
What is a Wafer?
This is the smallest amount of information.
What is a bit?
This gate outputs 1 when the inputs are different.
What is XOR?
Alan Turing proposed a test to determine if a machine is capable of actual thought, thus laying the framework for how we still think of AIs mimicking people.
What are the 1950s?
A device deciding what to do with its input is doing this.
What is processing?
This connects the major components of a computer together.
What is a motherboard?
This process uses light to transfer tiny patterns onto a chip.
What is Lithography?
These are the first 4 place values in binary.
What are 1, 2, 4, and 8?
This gate outputs 1 when either or both inputs are 1.
What is OR?
Grace Hopper completed the A-0, a system that helped translate human-readable instructions into work a computer could execute.
What are the 1950s?
This name describes a computer that is built into another device.
What is embedded?
This temporarily holds information programs are actively using.
What is RAM or memory?
State-of-the-art machines use this explosive technique to produce ultraviolet light.
What is vaporize tin with a laser?
This is 19 expressed in binary.
What is 10011?
This is the output of 1-XOR-1.
What is 0?
Katherine Johnson wrote the computer program to calculate orbital trajectories for John Glenn's "Friendship 7" space flight.
What are the 1960s?
These four words describe the basic jobs a computer can perform.
What are input, processing, output, and storage?
This keeps files even when the computer is powered off.
What is Storage?
(SSD and HDD is acceptable)
Short-wavelength ultraviolet light is used in lithography instead of easy-to-produce light for this reason.
What is short-wavelength lets us make the chip features smaller?
This is the sum 1011₂ + 0110₂.
What is 10001?
By combining an arbitrarily large number of logic gates, a computer can carry out this inclusive list of mathematical algorithms.
What is every algorithm?
NASA gave an onboard prototype AI primary control of an asteroid probe, Deep Space 1.
What are the 1990s?