Tool 1

Question 1

When did computing begin

Answer 1

With astronomers, logicians, mathematicians needed to calculate problems

Question 2

Who built a device to calculate the conjunction of planets

Answer 2

Persian astrologer Al-Kashi (1393-1449)

Question 3

Which German mathematician developed a less sophisticated version of an addition and subtraction device

Answer 3

Wilhelm Schickard (1592-1635)

Question 4

Who is Blaise Pascal

Answer 4

A French mathematician from (1612-1662) which made a simpler version of Schickards work.

Question 5

What fueled the development of computing

Answer 5

The increase in trade required a better device for navigation

Question 6

What engine did Charles Babbage make to calculate the 6th-degree polynomial?

Answer 6

Difference engine 1820-1870

Question 7

Who developed the Analytica Engine which was the first calculating device to use punch cards.

Answer 7

Charles Babbage

Question 8

Who developed a computational device using punch cards to calculate census statistics (migrant stats)

Answer 8

Herman Hollerith 1860-1929

Question 9

Who joined what company and built it up to form the International Bussiness Machines Corporation (IBM)

Answer 9

Thomas J Watson joined the company Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company. 1914

Question 10

In WW2 who was employed to break the German encryption techniques?

Answer 10

Alan Turing an English logician

Question 11

What machines accepted input via keyboard and produced output via a teleprinter and the purpose of this machine was to break German encryption

Answer 11

Colossus 1943 (maybe the first interactive computer)

Question 12

Who conceived the idea of WWW known as the Memex system?

Answer 12

Vannevar Bush 1945. ( American electrical engineer)

Question 13

What machine was the first all-electronic digital computer which used Colossus techniques and who produced this machine?

Answer 13

ENIAC produced by JW Mauchly and JP Eckert. 1946

Question 14

How did you have to program ballistic calculations?

Answer 14

By manipulating plugs and relays

Question 15

What high-level programming language did IBM release?

Answer 15

FORTRAN 1957

Question 16

Who invented the first sophisticated drawing package and what was it called

Answer 16

Ivan Sutherland invented the SketchPad in 1963.

Question 17

Steven Wozniak produced Apple I, based on what chip?

Answer 17

MOStek6502 (1976)

Question 18

Xerox produced their GUI, what did it do?

Answer 18

Files were represented by icons and were deleted by dragging them over the waste bin. 1982

Question 19

Give an example of a web-based social network

Answer 19

It will be a network that allows a relationship between users for example Reddit.

Question 20

An example of a ubiquitous device?

Answer 20

They are technologies we use in our everyday life which we don’t realize for example Fitbit or smart speakers

Question 21

What is human-computer interaction?

Answer 21

The studying and improving the factors that influence the efficiency and effectiveness of computer use.

Question 22

Ergonomics

Answer 22

Is the study of work

Question 23

Human factor

Answer 23

The study of user interfaces in their working context so the human’s physiology, perception, and cognition in their everyday life.

Question 24

Usability

Answer 24

A product can be used by a user to achieve specific goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction

Question 25

Interaction designs

Answer 25

Designing interactive products to support the way people communicate and interact in their everyday lives.

Question 26

What are the four activities of interactive design

Answer 26

1. Identifying the user’s requirements
2. Developing designs for the specific requirement
3. Building a prototype of the design
4. Evaluating the design and users experience

Question 27

Accessibility

Answer 27

Designing products so people with disabilities can use them.