Tech Queens
A naval officer who invented the first computer compiler. Also has a conference named after her.
Who is Grace Hopper?
The newest school launched in Fall 2025, which combines four disciplines
What is the School of Computing, Data Sciences, and Physics?
A scripting language commonly used alongside HTML and CSS to create dynamic webpages
What is JavaScript?
The world’s largest search engine.
What is Google?
A unit of digital information, usually encoded as a 0 or 1
What is a bit?
The world's first computer programmer
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The chair of the CS department
Who is Professor Smirni?
A procedural language developed in the 1970s and the foundation for various programming languages, including Java and C++
What is C?
The first decentralized cryptocurrency
What is Bitcoin?
An entity used to store values/data in computer memory
What is a variable?
Developed the Liskov substitution principle (Give first AND last name)
Who is Barbara Liskov?
Current name of W&M's hackathon
What is &Hacks?
A popular high-level computer programming language with dynamic typing and garbage collection. Named after a British comedy series.
What is Python?
Underlying communication protocol for the World Wide Web
What is HTTP?
A data structure that contains a collection of elements stored contiguously in memory
What is an array?
She is credited with coining the term software engineering. Directed the team that wrote software for the command and lunar modules used for the Apollo Missions.
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
The dean of the new School of Computing, Data Sciences, and Physics
Who is Douglas Schmidt?
A programming language named after a type of coffee
What is Java?
Universal character encoding standard that supports text in virtually all the world’s written languages
What is Unicode?
A popular open source distributed version control system
What is Git?
She is referred to as the “Mother of the Internet” due to her invention of the Spanning Tree protocol, which makes the modern Internet possible
Who is Radia Perlman?
The year the first PhD of Computer Science was granted at W&M
What is 1988?
Developed at IBM in 1956 and considered the first compiled high-level programming language
What is FORTRAN?
Refers to the vast network of physical objects embedded with sensors, software, and network connectivity (or “smart devices”)
What is the Internet of Things?
An undecidable problem of determining whether a given program will halt or run forever.
What is the Halting Problem?