A Harvard PhD in Physics, and known for his work on the Harvard Mark computers, implementing electronic components, as well as the magnetic drum and magnetic core memory.
Who is Howard Aiken?
100
The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was made in 1944 by John Von Neumann.
What is the Mark 1
100
The successor to the ENIAC
What is The EDVAC
100
The year that Charles Babbage Invented the Computer
What is 1832
100
The scientist who invented La Pascaline
Who is Blaise Pascal
200
The inventor of the Electromechanical Punched Card, the Tabulator, and founder of the Tabulating machine Company.
Who is Herman Hollerith?
200
a storage device that uses a magnetization process to write, rewrite and access data. It is covered with a magnetic coating and stores data in the form of tracks, spots and sectors.
What is the Magnetic Disk
200
a compiled English-like computer programming language designed for business use.
What is COBOL
200
An invention invented by the Egyptians, used to record numeric values
What is The Abacus
200
the first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace.
300
A computer scientist and navy admiral, as well as an innovator in computer programming who invented the first compiler tool, and introduced machine independent programming language.
Who is Grace Hopper?
300
the software that supports a computer's basic functions, such as scheduling tasks, executing applications, and controlling peripherals.
What is operating Systems
300
One of the oldest programming languages, the it was developed by a team of programmers at IBM led by John Backus, and was first published in 1957. It was the first high-level language
What is FORTRAN
300
A world wide tech. that allowed information sharing over long distances, developed by the U.S Government.
What is The internet
300
discovered the first computer Bug.
Who is Grace Hopper
400
This scientist pioneered work on calculating machines, and is known as the inventor of the mechanical calculator.
Who is Blaise Pascal?
400
an electron tube containing a near-vacuum that allows the free passage of electric current. Large, Not very reliable, generated a lot of heat
What are Vacuum Tubes
400
A software program that runs on a computer- named such because it has an 'application'
What are Applications
400
Rapid advances of microprocessor-based computers from esoteric hobby projects to a commonplace fixture of homes in industrial societies during the 1970s and 1980s.
What is the PC Revolution
400
Best known for figuring out logarithims
Who is John Napier
500
A woman who worked alongside Charles Babbage on the Analytical Machine, created the first computer algorithm.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
500
replaced vacuum tube, fast, small, durable, cheap
What is a Transistor
500
mental model that removes complex details
What is Abstraction
500
In 1998, this important search engine allows you to search the internet fr information
What is Google
500
was a German polymath and philosopher who occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy, having developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton. Created the Stepped Reckoner.