Lecture 2 history of CS

Question 1

the GrandFather of the Computer’
It is the first mechanical computer.

Answer 1

Babbage’s analytical engine

Question 2

The first programmer.

Answer 2

Augusta Ada King

Question 3

developed a machine for tabulating US census which
used punched cards

Answer 3

Herman Hollerith

Question 4

piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain
digital data represented by the presence or
absence of holes in predefined positions.

Answer 4

punched card

Question 5

It was a binary electrically driven mechanical
calculator, reading instructions from punched
celluloid film

Answer 5

Z1

Question 6

Who created Z1

Answer 6

Konrad Zuse

Question 7

What was created by Howard H. Aiken in 1943

Answer 7

first electro-mechanical computer:Aiken’s IBM Automatic Sequence
Controlled Calculator

Question 8

mathematical model of a hypothetical computing
machine which can use a predefined set of rules to determine a result
from a set of input variables

Answer 8

turing machine

Question 9

who invented EDVAC stands for Electronic Discrete
Variable Automatic Computer
▪ The First Stored Program Computer

Answer 9

Von Neumann

Question 10

is a
general-purpose, compiled imperative
programming language that is especially
suited to numeric computation and
scientific computing

Answer 10

Fortran

Question 11

is a
compiled English-like computer
programming language designed for
business use

Answer 11

COBOL

Question 12

is a family of
general-purpose, high-level programming
languages whose design philosophy
emphasizes ease of use

Answer 12

BASIC

Question 13

a computer reservation
system which was developed to automate
the way American Airlines booked
reservations

Answer 13

Sabre

Question 14

describes a driving force of
technological and social change, productivity,
and economic growth

Answer 14

Moore’s law

Question 15

what technologies became the technical
foundation of the Internet

Answer 15

ARPANET and TCP/IP

Question 16

Father of the modern PC

Answer 16

IBM Personal Computer

Question 17

1 generation of comp

Answer 17

vacuum tubes

Question 18

2 generation

Answer 18

transistors and diodes

Question 19

3 gen

Answer 19

integrated circuits

Question 20

4 gen

Answer 20

microprocessors

Question 21

5 gen

Answer 21

AI

Question 22

the
first computer system to defeat a reigning
world champion under standard chess
tournament time controls

Answer 22

IBM’s Deep blue

Question 23

launched Microsoft,
which became the world’s
largest PC software company

Answer 23

in 1975, Gates and Paul Allen

Question 24

co-founded
Apple in 1976 to sell Apple
computers with Macintosh OS

Answer 24

Jobs and Wozniak

Question 25

Father of the World Wide Web

Answer 25

Sir Tim-Berners Lee

Question 26

Google was founded by

Answer 26

arry Page
and Sergey Brin

Question 27

Yahoo was founded by

Answer 27

Jerry Yang and David
Filo

Question 28

who founded Amazon

Answer 28

Jeff bezos

Question 29

Pierre Morad Omidyar

Answer 29

founded eBay

Question 30

Who founded Alibaba

Answer 30

Jack Ma

Question 31

Insta founders

Answer 31

Kevin Systrom and Mike
Krieger