History Flashcards
Who created Pascaline the Mechanical Calculator
Blaise Pascal
Who created the First Compiler?
Grace Murray Hopper
Who created the Mechanical Multiplier
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
What was discussed in “the Most important Masters Thesis” ?
How to use boolean algebra to implement a computer
Who wrote “The Most Important Master Thesis” ?
Claude Shannon
Who created Lambda Calculus
Alonzo Church
What is Blaise Pascal known for?
Creating the Pascaline machine, a Mechanical Calculator
What is Grace Murray Hopper known for?
Creating the first compiler.
What is Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz known for?
Creating the Mechanical Multiplier (remember…multiple names)
What is Claude Shannon known for?
Writing “the most important master thesis”
What was Enigma?
A German Encryption machine used in WW2
What was Lorenz Z40/42 ?
A German Encryption machine used in WW2
Name two German Encryption machines
Enigma and Lorenz SZ40/42
Who’s reffered to as the first programmer?
Ada Lovelace
Who invented the computer mouse?
Douglas Engelbart
Who created the TeX typesetting language?
Donald Knuth
(Remember… Donald Trump, nei TeX
Knuthex)
Who designed the Analytical Engine?
Charles Babbage
Who produced the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE)?
Alan Turing
What programming languages did Niklaus Wirth create ?
Euler, Pascal, Algol, Modula
Who designed the first computer program?
Ada Lovelace
Who invented regular expressions and founded the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory?
Stephen Kleene
Who designed a graph search algorithm to find the shortest path?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Who built the Z1, Z2 and Z3 computers?
Konrad Zuse
Who designed the Analytical Engine?
Charles Babbage
Who wrote the famous GOTO Considered Harmful?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
What was the first electronic digital computer?
ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer)
