What the what?
What are the names of one of the two ridesharing apps that allow users to locate potential drivers?
uber and lyft
Who proposed the Entscheidungsproblem?
David Hilbert
What term refers to text or writing that lets a user access another document from within the first?
hypertext
Where were the typewriter, adding machine and cash register invented?
U.S.A.
IPOD
In what city is Leslie Kuhn a lawyer in?
Chicago
french for thank you
merci
What was the term used in the 1940's to describe a person who performed calculations?
Computer
Who wrote the book, The Wealth of Nations, in 1776?
Adam Smith
How did Andreesen and Bina make Mosaic available on the Internet?
They made it a free download
What event marks the beginning of mobile computing?
The invention of the laptop in 1980
What event marks the beginning of mobile computing?
The inveention of the laptop in 1980
Mrs. Brieman
german for thank you
danke
What company used a UNIVAC computer to predict the presidential election on live TV?
Remington Rand
Who was the British man who proposed and built the "difference and analytical engines" that were meant to help with human navigation?
William Babbage
Internet Explorer was a response to what browser?
Netscape
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab was associated with which University?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In the late 1950s, IBM and which airline developed a computer reservation system?
American
What was the name of the hospital that Dr. Haase was the director of?
Beaver Dam Hospital
Spanish for thank you
gracias
Q
What was the name of the second computer (after ENIAC)?
Edvac
Herman Hollerith invented a machine that helped what in 1890?
tabulate the population of the U.S. census
Google is the misspelling of what word? What is its meaning?
Googol, a very large number
What country is credited with inventing the first computer?
What is the significance of this quote? "What has god wrought"?
Message of the first long distance telegraph
What war did George Kohn, the pilot fight in?
Vietnam War
how do you say thank you in Italian
grazie
A
What is a device similar in appearance to a lightbulb and can modulate or amplify electrical currents; and has two states, on and off.
vacuum tube
This person was credited with writing the first computer program?
Ada Lovelace
The first high-level programming language to receive
widespread use was called?
fortran
What German engineer developed electromechanical computers in pre-World War II?
Conrad Zuse
Name one of the two largest computer companies in the 1950's in the US, according to the Resource Guide
UNIVAC and IBM
What news organization did Kari Patey work for in Manhatten?
NBC
how do you say thank you in Chinese?
In today’s terminology, the Central Processing Unit
(CPU) is the ______of the computer?
brains
Although the idea did not originate with them, this person was most commonly associated with popularizing the concept of high-level language, who was it?
Grace Hopper
The first commercially successful coin operated video game, created by Atari was ?
Pong
The first wireless computer network had its origins in an somewhat unlikely place, where was it?
Hawaii
In the late 1960s, IBM developed what kind of
disk, which became an important part of the
personal computer revolution of the 1980s.
floppy disk
What association bestowed several honors upon Professor Dennis Buege?
National Meat Association
How do you say thank you in pig latin?
hanktay ouyay