I- Identify the names of the inventors:
1-2. They developed the Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) programming language.
- JOHN KEMENY
- THOMAS KURTZ
3. In collaboration with IBM engineers, he constructed Mark 1.
- HOWARD AIKEN
4. He invented the mouse-pointing device for computers. He received a patent for his invention in late 1963 and demostrated his system keyboard, keypad, mouse and windows at the joint Computer Conference in San Francisco Civic Center in 1968.
- DOUGLAS ENGELBART
5. He invented a computing device using a set of sticks called "bones" which can perform both multiplication and division.
- JOHN NAPIER
6. He introduced the concept of microprogramming.
- MAURICE V. WILKES
7. He first developed the virtual memory machine.
-R. M KILBURN
8. He developed and introduced the PDP-1 ( Program Data Processor - 1 ) was the first minicomputer and the first commercial computer equipped with keyboard and monitor.
- BENJAMIN CURLEY
9. He designed Pascal programming language to help students learn how to program computers.
- NICKLAUS WIRTH
10. He demonstrated that it was possible to integrate the various components of a CPU onto a single piece of silicon. These computer chips were called integrated circuits (ICs) because they combined multiple electronic circuits on the same chip.
- JACK KILBY
11. He built the first fully transistorized supercomputer for Control Data Corporation.
- SEYMOUR CRAY
12. French inventor, who developed the Jacquard loom, which enabled a single operator to weave complex patterns.
- JACQUARD, JOSEPH-MARIE
13-14. ENIAC was built by American physicist at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennysylvania.
- JOHN W. MAUCHLY
- JOHN PRESPER ECKERT
15. British mathematician. laid some of the early conceptual and technical groundwork for high technology by helping develop an early computer.
- BYRON (AUGUSTA) ADA
16. British mathematician and logician, who developed Boolean algebra. Largely self-educated, in 1849.
- BOOLE, GEORGE
17. An english inventor and mathematicians invented the "difference engine".
- CHARLES BABBAGE
18. A rear admiral in the United States Navy, was known for her discovery of the first computer bug in the Harvard Mark II computer.
- DR. GRACE MURRAY HOPPERA
19. He built the first floppy disk
- ALLAN SHUGART
20. He designed the computer-on-a-chip. It was developed later in 1970 at the Intel Corporation as the first microprocessor chip (4004 microprocessor)
-WAYNE PICKETTE
21. He proposed a global network of stored documents that would allow physics researchers to access and exchange information.
- TIMOTHY BERNERS-LEE
22-23. They created the search engine called Yahoo!
- JERRY YANG
- DAVID FILO
24,25,26. They developed the first electronic spreadsheet program called VisiCalc.
-DAN BRICKLIN
- DAN FLYSTRA
- ROBERT FRANKSTON
27-28. They finished the the computer circuit board of the Apple 1 Computer in 1976.
They formed a company called Apple Computer Company on April 1976.
- STEPHEN WOZNIAK
- STEVE DOBS
29-30. They wrote the first programming language for the Altair, which was called BASIC and and licensed it to MITS (Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems) in exchange for royalty payment.
- BILL GATES
- PAUL ALLEN
II- Identify the Year development of the following hardware and software:
1. Asimo - 2003
2. Yahoo - 1994
3. World Wide Web - 1989
4. Page maker - 1985
5. Microsoft Windows - 1985
6. Apple Macintosh - 1984
7. 5 1/2 Diskette - 1967
8. IBM PC - 1981
9. C+ + - 1980
10. MS-DOS - 1980
11. Wordstart - 1979
12. Viscalc - 1978
13. 4004 Processor - 1968
14. BASIC - 1964
15. Object Oriented Programming - 1962
16. Mouse - 1962
17. RAMAC 305 - 1956
18. FORmula TRANSlation - 1954
19. Microprogramming - 1951
20. 1st Computer bug - 1945
Sunday, July 5, 2009
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