Breakthroughs
This innovation ushered in the Electronic Age of Computing.
What is the vacuum tube?
HH, known for his Tabulating Machine.
Who is Herman Hollerith?
Defined by the use of physical mechanisms like gears, levers, wheels, and cams to perform calculations automatically.
What is the Mechanical Age of Computing?
Considered the world's first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Consists of a control unit, a memory unit, and an ALU.
What is a CPU?
This innovation replaced the vacuum tube, allowing computers to become smaller, faster, and less expensive.
What is the transistor?
CB, considered to be "the father of the computer".
Who is Charles Babbage?
This Age of Computing lasted the longest.
What is the Pre-mechanical Age of Computing?
Predicted that transistor density on integrated circuits would double every two years.
Who is Gordon Moore?
Tally marks and counting tokens were among the innovations of this civilization.
Who are the Sumerians?
This innovation is considered the watershed event that ended the Pre-mechanical Age of Computing.
What is the mechanical printing press?
KZ, whose achievements in computer design were overshadowed by World War II.
Who is Konrad Zuse?
The Age of Computing we are in now.
What are Generations IV and V of the Electronic Age of Computing?
Holds the patent for inventing the computer.
Who is no one?
Replacing the bit, this is the fundamental unit of information used to encode data in quantum computing.
What is a qubit?
Considered the first general-purpose computer design, it was never built during its creator's lifetime.
What is the Analytical Engine?
Invented the WWW, HTML, and URLs.
Who is Sir Tim Berners-Lee?
Defined by the integration of electrical components into mechanical systems.
What is the Electromechanical Age of Computing?
Considered to be "the father of theoretical computing and AI".
Who is Alan Turing?
The first solid state transistors were made of this material.
What is germanium?
The first commercially available microprocessor was introduced by this company in 1971.
What is Intel?
AK, from whose name the word algorithm is derived.
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
This generation of the Electronic Age of Computing lasted merely seven years.
What is Generation III?
Won the first of their two Nobel Prizes in Physics for their work on the transistor.
Who is John Bardeen?
The missing element in this sequence: vacuum tube -> transistor -> ? -> microprocessor.
What is an integrated circuit?