HISOTRY AND EVOLUTION OF COMPUTING

Question 1

One of the first known tools for computation, used for basic arithmetic.

Answer 1

ABACUS

Question 2

Devices like Blaise Pascal’s Pascaline and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Step Reckoner performed addition and multiplication.

Answer 2

MECHANICAL CALCULATORS (17th Century)

Question 3

Designed the Analytical Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer, though it was never completed in his lifetime.

Answer 3

CHARLES BABBAGE

Question 4

Often considered the first computer programmer for her work on Babbage’s Analytical Engine.

Answer 4

ADA LOVELACE

Question 5

Developed the punched card system for data processing, influencing early computing machines.

Answer 5

HERMAN HOLLERITH

Question 6

Proposed the concept of a Turing machine, laying the groundwork for theoretical computer science.

Answer 6

ALAN TURING

Question 7

The first general-purpose electronic digital computer, developed by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.

Answer 7

ENIAC

Question 8

Invented by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley, replacing vacuum tubes and revolutionizing computer design.

Answer 8

TRANSISTORS (1947)

Question 9

Developed by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, allowing the miniaturization of electronic circuits.

Answer 9

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

Question 10

The Altair 8800 (1975) and Apple II (1977) brought computing to homes and small businesses.

Answer 10

PERSONAL COMPUTERS

Question 11

Evolved from ARPANET to a global network, transforming communication and information sharing.

Answer 11

INTERNET

Question 12

Smartphones and tablets became ubiquitous, changing how people interact with technology.

Answer 12

MOBILE COMPUTING

Question 13

Offered scalable resources and services over the internet, changing business and data management.

Answer 13

CLOUD COMPUTING

Question 14

Advanced machine learning and AI applications began to influence numerous fields.

Answer 14

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE