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1
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Who created Pascaline the Mechanical Calculator

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Blaise Pascal

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Who created the First Compiler?

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Grace Murray Hopper

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Who created the Mechanical Multiplier

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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

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What was discussed in “the Most important Masters Thesis” ?

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How to use boolean algebra to implement a computer

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Who wrote “The Most Important Master Thesis” ?

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Claude Shannon

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Who created Lambda Calculus

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Alonzo Church

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What is Blaise Pascal known for?

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Creating the Pascaline machine, a Mechanical Calculator

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What is Grace Murray Hopper known for?

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Creating the first compiler.

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What is Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz known for?

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Creating the Mechanical Multiplier (remember…multiple names)

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What is Claude Shannon known for?

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Writing “the most important master thesis”

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What was Enigma?

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A German Encryption machine used in WW2

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What was Lorenz Z40/42 ?

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A German Encryption machine used in WW2

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Name two German Encryption machines

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Enigma and Lorenz SZ40/42

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Who’s reffered to as the first programmer?

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Ada Lovelace

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Who invented the computer mouse?

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Douglas Engelbart

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Who created the TeX typesetting language?

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Donald Knuth
(Remember… Donald Trump, nei TeX
Knuthex)

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Who designed the Analytical Engine?

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Charles Babbage

18
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Who produced the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE)?

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Alan Turing

19
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What programming languages did Niklaus Wirth create ?

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Euler, Pascal, Algol, Modula

20
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Who designed the first computer program?

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Ada Lovelace

21
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Who invented regular expressions and founded the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory?

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Stephen Kleene

22
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Who designed a graph search algorithm to find the shortest path?

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Edsger W. Dijkstra

23
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Who built the Z1, Z2 and Z3 computers?

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Konrad Zuse

24
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Who designed the Analytical Engine?

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Charles Babbage

25
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Who wrote the famous GOTO Considered Harmful?

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Edsger W. Dijkstra

26
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What was the first electronic digital computer?

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ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer)

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