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Computer History Quiz

The document is a 20-page quiz about the ten most influential contributors to computer history. It provides short biographies and questions about famous pioneers such as Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Douglas Engelbart, Steve Wozniak, Grace Hopper, and Vint Cerf. These innovators made seminal contributions like conceptualizing programmable computers, establishing the field of computer science, inventing the transistor and integrated circuit, developing user-friendly computing interfaces, and establishing the foundations of the Internet.

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Computer History Quiz

The document is a 20-page quiz about the ten most influential contributors to computer history. It provides short biographies and questions about famous pioneers such as Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Douglas Engelbart, Steve Wozniak, Grace Hopper, and Vint Cerf. These innovators made seminal contributions like conceptualizing programmable computers, establishing the field of computer science, inventing the transistor and integrated circuit, developing user-friendly computing interfaces, and establishing the foundations of the Internet.

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Answer:He'sthemathematician/mechanicalengineerwhosprungtheconceptoftheprogrammable
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Question:WhoisCharlesBabbage?

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Answer:He'sthe"fatherofinformationtheory"whoconcludedin1937thatelectricalapplicationof
Booleanalgebracouldbeusedforcomputationanddigitalcalculation.

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Question:WhoisClaudeShannon?

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Answer:In1950,hedefinedartificialintelligenceasthatinwhichanexchangewithamachineis
indistinguishablefromhumaninteraction.

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Question:WhoisAlanTuring?

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Answer:Hedeterminedin1945thatprogramsshouldbestoredinmemory,alongwithdata.

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Question:WhoisJohnvonNeumann?

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Answer:This1956NobelPrizewinnerandreputed"founderofSiliconValley"coinventedthetransistor
andcreatedtheShockleySemiconductor.

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Question:WhoisWilliamShockley?

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Answer:Heconductedfamous"MotherofAllDemos"in1968,whichintroducedthecomputermouse,
videoconferencing,teleconferencing,hypertext,wordprocessingandothertoolswetakeforgrantednow.

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Question:WhoisDouglasEngelbart?

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Answer:HecoinventedtheintegratedcircuitandcofoundedFairchildSemiconductorin1957andIntelin
1968,andwasdubbed"MayorofSiliconValley."

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Question:WhoisRobertNoyce?

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Answer:ThisApplecofoundercreatedtheAppleIandAppleIIcomputersinthe1970s,ignitingthePC
revolution.

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Question:WhoisSteveWozniak?(Wehadtoletyouhaveoneeasyone.)

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Answer:ThisRearAdmiralservedasprogrammingtrailblazer,popularizingtheterm"debugging"and
conceptualizingmachineindependentprogramminglanguages,leadingtoCOBOLin1959.

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Question:Whois"Amazing"GraceMurrayHopper?

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Answer:He'stheDARPAprogrammanagerwhohelpeddevelopTCP/IPtechnology,aswellasthefirst
commercialemailsystemin1980semergingasafoundingfatheroftheInternetforhisefforts.

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