History of Tech & Computing
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
The mother and father of Tech and Computing.
Ada Lovelace & Charles Babbage
These devices are used in computing to send and display data or information.
Input and Output
A programming concept that repeats a group of commands.
Loop
AI can be our personal assistants at home, assist with space exploration, diagnose diseases, open our phones, get driving directions, and recommend shopping items, movies, and music. What year did the concept of AI begin?
1950
Guido van Rossum invented this computer programming language in 1991. He designed this to create a language that focuses on code readability and improves developers' productivity. What is the name of this language?
Python
This person invented the World Wide Web and the first web page went live on August 6, 1991.
Time Berners-Lee
The main circuit board in a computer connects all of the computer's internal and external parts, allowing the system to work properly.
Motherboard
A set of computational instructions that achieves a particular outcome.
Algorithm
This company has officially opened its first robotic-run restaurant in Texas.
McDonald's
Grace Hopper coined the phrase, "bug" in computer programming. In the 1950's she invented the first computer programming language that could be understood by using English words. What is the name of this programming language?
COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)
This person was very influential during WW II saving millions of lives by decrypting the German's Enigma Machine.
Alan Turing
This part is the computer's brain. Like a human brain, it controls all the computer's functions.
Central Processing System
A method for representing numbers that use only two symbols, typically "0" and "1"
Binary
This computer defeated Garry Kasparov in a six-game chess match in 1997, becoming the first computer to beat a reigning world chess champion under tournament conditions
IBM's Deep Blue
This person invented the New York City-based company called International Business Machine (IBM) in 1911.
Herman Hollerith
This person inspired other women in her life working as a NASA mathematician who played a key role in the early days of space exploration. She was also referred to as a "computer".
Katherine Johnson
A device that stores digital data on a computer, such as files, applications, photos, music, documents, and videos.
Hard Drive
A block of code that contains a set of instructions to perform a specific task
Function
This is a text-based instruction, question, or coding that tells an artificial intelligence (AI) tool what response to generate. The AI analyzes this and responds based on the patterns it learned during training.
Prompt
This person was the first female who designed and programmed a 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe video game for Atari in 1978.
Carol Shaw
This person was an electronic engineer in Silicon Valley. He invented the first video game cartridge to play games on a television screen at home. He is often referred to as the "father of the gaming world".
Jerry Lawson
This stores short-term memory of data that the computer needs to retrieve quickly.
Random Access Memory (RAM)
A method of manipulating data to prevent it from being accurately interpreted by anyone but the intended recipients
Encryption
This robot was the first general-purpose mobile robot able to reason about its own actions. While other robots would have to be instructed on each step of completing a larger task, Shakey could analyze commands and break them down into basic chunks by itself. It is now on display at the Computer History Museum in California.
Shakey the Robot