Social Science (Class Set)

Which two men were responsible for the creation of BASIC?

John Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz

The Dartmouth BASIC timesharing system was built around which computer?

General Electronic 235

How much money did Kenneth Olsen get to start DEC?

$70,000

What does SAGE stand for?

Semi-Automated Ground Environment

Who proposed Time-Sharing?

Fernando Corbato

What was Project Whirlwind?

Flight Simulator

Who Cofounded Intel with Robert Noyce?

Gordon Moore

Who invented the Intel 4004 Microprocessor?

Ted Hoff

Founder of Microsoft?

Bill Gates

Who Co-Developed BASIC for Personal Computers?

Paul Allen

Who was the Co-Creator of VisiCalc (early spreadsheet)

Daniel Bricklin

Who created the Harvard Mark I?

Howard Aiken

The architect of the IBM PC

William C. Lowe

What's the name of Adam Smith's 1776 book?

The Wealth of Nations

Best selling desktop computer of all time?

Commodore 64

How much memory did the Altair's 8800 have?

256 bytes

Who helped Bill Gates develop a version of the BASIC compatible with Altair's Intel 8080 processor?

Paul Allen

Who invented the Difference and Analytical Engine?

Charles Babbage

MITS, creators of the Altair 8800, was located on which city?

Albuquerque, New Mexico

XEROX was the market leader for which industry?

Copy Machine Industry

Name of the demonstration that introduced the computer mouse?

"Mother of all All Demos"

What computer network did Norm Abramson create?

ALOHAnet

Who is most remembered for the idea that proofs cannot be automated aafter studying the Entscheidungsproblem?

Alan Turing

What was the first long distance telegraph message?

What Hath God Wrought

What were original programmers called?

Operators

German engineer binary aritmetic

Konrad Zuse

Who wrote "On the Economy of Machinery & Manufacturers" ?

Babbage

Who developed TCP/IP?

Vint Cert and Bob Khan

Tabulating machine for census

Herman Hollerith

What was the quintessential minicomputer?

PDP-11

Who was the first computer programmer?

Ada Lovelace

How much did the PDP-8 cost?

$18,000

Romantic poet, Ada Lovelace's father

Lord Byron

Which two men developed TCP / IP ?

Vint Cert and Bob Kahn

What inspired Herman Hollerith's cardstock system for the census?

The organette

What does PDP stand for?

Programmed Data Processor

What are the three essential characteristics of a computer?

1. Memory

2. Programmability

3. Conditional Branching

How heavy was the Mark 1? (Harvard)

5 tons

What does BASIC stand for?

Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

How long did the 1880 census take to process?

7 years

What college did Konrad Zuse graduate from?

The technical college of Berlin-Charlottenburg

Which labs created the C programming language?

AT&T Bell Labs

Anastoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

John Antanasoff

How many typewriters did Philo Remington first produce?

1,000 typewriters

What two people developed BASIC?

John Kemeny and Thomas E.Kartz

Manager of OS/36O

Fred Brooks

What company was mass producing typewriters in the late 19th century?

Remington

What is conditional branching?

if/then statements

Who invented integrated circuit 8 and started intel?

Robert Noyce and Jake Kilby

Creator of CLU programing language- popularized object oriented programing?

Barbara Liskov

What is the difference between electronic and electrical?

"electric" refers to anything related to electricity or the flow of electric charge, while "electronic" refers to devices or systems that utilize or manipulate electricity to perform specific functions, such as computers, smartphones, or televisions.

Created Smalltalk programing language and object-oriented programming?

Alan Kay

Who founded IBM?

Thomas J Watson

What time-sharing system did Fernando Corbato build?

CTSS (compatible time-sharing system)

Developed store and forward packet switching for computer networks

Leonard Kleinrock, Paul Baran, Donald Davies

Who invented the Ethernet for highspeed local area networks?

Robert Metacalfe

Project leader for Whirlwind

Jay Forrester

Who founded the Harvard Mark I?

IBM

What is binary arithmetic?

The digits 0-1

First commercially successful coin-operated video game console?

Pong

Created LISP programming

John McCarthy

WHat was the first PC released by MIT?

Altair 8800

What two networks merged into NSFNET?

CS Net and BITNET

mathematician who joined ENIAC team and added "stored program."

John Von Newman

What is NCR short for?

National Cash Register Company

What network was used in France?

Minitel

What did Rona Kardex Company produce before merging with Remington?

Filing cabinets and vertically hanging folders

Developed of CTSS- time sharing system at MIT

Fernando Corbato

What 2 companies made Remington Rand?

Remington Typewriter Company (RTC) & Rand Kardex Co. (RKC)

What processor did windows 3.0 utilize?

Intel 80386 chip

Creates Arpanet?

J-C-R Licklider

What does PDA stand for?

personal digital assistant

What did people refer to Blackberry phones as?

Crack berries

Who directed Xerox parc lab?

Robert Taylor

Designer of the Apple II computer?

Steve Wozniak

Founder of Digital Research and creator of CP/M operating system

Gary Kildall

What was the first practical stored program computer?

EDSAC

Founder of Apple & Next

Steve jobs

Creators of TCP/IP Protocol

Vint Cert & Bob Kahn

Created M5-DOS

Tim Patterson

Developed BASIC

John Kemeny & Thomas Kurtz

Created Intergrated Circuit and founded Intel

Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby

Invented computer mouse

Douglas Englebart

army officer who helped get funding for ENIAC

Herman Goldstine

Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation- developed mini computers

Kenneth Olsen

What network was used in Hawaii?

Alohanet

Director of PARC research team

Robert Taylor

What video game company branched out into general-purpose computing in 1974?

Atari

Architect of Apple II

Steve Wazniak

Developed UNIX

Ken Thompson & Dennis Ritchie

Created Alohanet

Norm Abramson

Creator of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg

Central part of an operating system, the part that all other programs connect to

Kernel

HTML?

Hypertext Markup Language

How long did the U.S. v. Microsoft case last?

2 years

Who coined the term "hypertext"?

Ted Nelson

What company hired members of AI Lab to develop the Lisp Machine?

Symbolics

Comapany that made Walkman

Sony

What is Moore's Law?

The number of transistors that can fit on a processor will double every two years

Legendary entrepreneur Jim Clark was known for founding what company?

Silicon Graphics