CS as a Catalyst Quiz 1 Flashcards
One of the first and most important applications of the ARPANET was
What term is used to describe a high-speed Internet connection?
The two principal catalysts for the Information Age have been
The mechanical adding machines of Pascal and Leibniz were not widely adopted because?
High-level programming languages were developed in order to?
Google’s old slogan that Steven Levy mentioned as being coined in 2003 is
Do no evil
The 19th century was about
The 20th century was about
The 21st century is often referred to as
This robot is a weed-killing crop scanner:
Why are computers generally better at weather forecasting than humans?
A social problem where image search can be impactful is:
Computer Science gives us the opportunity to
reinvent things
What is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes?
technology
What is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction?
Society
What is the differentiation of intentions; decisions and actions between those that are considered acceptable and those that are not?
Morality
What systematizes defends and recommends concepts for moral conduct?
Ethics
What is a technology invented in 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Conte?
pencil
The active smuggling trade in graphite from the graphite mines near Keswick during the Napoleonic wars shows poor
The promises and perils of Computer Science are often compared to
Pandora’s box
Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that
Moral choices are not universal
A moral principle often used while building self-driving cars is:
Minimize harm
Who has a big role in fuelling worries about job loss?
media
_____ considers the challenges in making computers useful and usable and accessible.
Human-computer interaction
Who is Muḥammad al-Khwārizmī?
Who is considered the first computer programmer in the world?
Ada Lovelace
The mechanical adding machines of Pascal and Leibniz were not widely adopted because?
they were difficult to program.
they were expensive.
they were unreliable.
they could not handle fractions.
High-level programming languages were developed in order to?
make it possible to program computers in English.
improve the computation speed of computers.
make the programming faster and less prone to errors.
speed up the translation between English and French during world war II.
Google’s old slogan that Steven Levy mentioned as being coined in 2003 is
Don’t be evil.
The 20th century was about
physics and engineering
digital arts
online communication
data revolution
This robot is a weed-killing crop scanner:
The ______ created the first online communities.
telephone
