Who is the French mathematician and philosopher who invented a calculating device that would come to be called the
"Adding Machine"? (First and Last Name)
Question 2 (5 points)
What was created in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva?
Microprocessor Internet World Wide Web Ethernet Question 3 (5 points)
Who was the American mathematician who developed the original idea that a computer could not only store data and produce results, but that it could also store programs? (First and Last Name)
Question 4 (5 points)
Who are the two people responsible for creating the Apple Computer?
Steve Wozniak Walter Macintosh Steve Jobs Bill Gates Question 5 (5 points)
What code was created in 1963 which permitted machines from different manufacturers to exchange data? This code consists of 128 unique strings of ones and zeros. Each sequence represents a letter of the English alphabet, an Arabic numeral, an assortment of punctuation marks and symbols, or a function such as a carriage return.
LOGO JAVA ASCII BASIC Question 6 (5 points)
Who was a co-founder of Microsoft?
Tim Berners-Lee Steve Case William Shockley Bill Gates Question 7 (5 points)
Which English mathematician and professor created the "Analytical Engine" in 1833? (First and Last Name)
Question 8 (5 points)
What was the Harvard professor, Howard Aiken, working on when he created the Mark I?
A Missing Comma locator for Westinghouse Writing artificial intelligence programs Organize information for the IRS Produce ballistic charts for the US Navy Question 9 (5 points)
What computer was launched in the 1984 Super Bowl?
The computer was mouse-driven with a graphic user interface (GUI).
IBM PC with Windows Macintosh Amiga Dell Question 10 (5 points)
What was the name of the computer that was used to calculate the ballistic course of shells during World War II?
(ACRONYM in caps)
Question 11 (5 points)
Which language developed in 1960 by a committee headed by Dr. Grace Hopper used English-like phrases and was considered a high-level business application?
HTML LISP BASIC COBOL Question 12 (5 points)
Which corporation actually came up with the innovations of the "mouse," as well as using "graphical" images and icons to designate commands and programs?
Xerox Westinghouse Apple IBM Question 13 (5 points)
What computer attracted widespread public attention in the U.S. in 1951 when it was delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau?
MARK II UNIVAC I IBM XT ENIAC Question 14 (5 points)
What was devised by Robert Metcalfe of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in a memo with hand-drawn diagrams in 1973?
The World Wide Web The ethernet method of network connection the MODEM the transistor Question 15 (5 points)
What was the programming language that Tim Berners-Lee developed in 1990?
Pasqual Basic Linux HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language Question 16 (5 points)
What was invented by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley in the Bell Telephone labs?
the transistor the floppy disk the hard drive the microprocessor Question 17 (5 points)
What computer language was created in 1957 to produce a missing comma diagnostic for Westinghouse?
BASIC FORTRAN HTML LISP Question 18 (5 points)
What does ENIAC stand for? (Capitalize each word)
Question 19 (5 points)
What magazine named the computer the Machine of the Year in 1982, acknowledging the impact of computers on society?
LIFE POST TIME PEOPLE Question 20 (5 points)
What is the name of the computer that was sold in kits for less than $400. It had no keyboard, no monitor, no permanent memory, and no software. It was named for the destination in an episode of Star Trek.
the Macintosh the Altair the Lisa the Colossus 