In which year was the ENIAC unveiled?
1943
1946
1950
When did Adam Smith publish "The Wealth of Nations"?
1776
1819
1860
The first small-scale prototype of the Difference Engine was produced by Babbage in which year?
1830
1833
1862
In what year did the various railway companies in Britain start running electric cables along their railroad tracks?
1850s
1860s
1870s
When was the Entscheidungsproblem proposed by David Hilbert?
1920
1928
1936
Alan Turing was involved in codebreaking during which war?
The Cold War
World War I
World War II
The 1890 census in the US, which used Herman Hollerith's punched-card system, was tabulated in how many years?
2.5
3
3.5
When was the first practical typewriter with a QWERTY keyboard patented?
1867
1869
1873
In which year did the Remington Typewriter Company merge with the Rand Kardex Company?
1927
1930
1933
When was the first successful cash register invented by James Ritty?
1870
1875
1879
In what year did C-T-R change its name to IBM?
1924
1930
1936
Konrad Zuse built the prototype Z1 in which year?
1936
1938
1942
The Manchester Baby ran its first successful program on which date?
June 21,1948
May 6,1949
July 4, 1950
When was the EDSAC completed and ran its first program successfully?
1948
1949
1952
In the 1950s, by which year did IBM surpass UNIVAC in installations mainly due to the success of the 650?
1955
1957
1959
Transistors were invented in the late which decade?
1920s
1930s
1940s
Integrated circuits became commercially viable by which time period?
Mid-1950s
Mid-1960s
Mid-1970s
Hua Luogeng returned to China in which year?
1948
1950
1952
In what year did the adjustment of China's "103 machine" complete?
1952
1956
1958
When was the first general-purpose programmable electronic computer, the ENIAC, designed?
1940 - 1942
1943 - 1945
1946 - 1948
Who proposed the use of a machine to automate the process of performing mathematical calculations inspired by the French project on logarithmic tables?
Adam Smith
Charles Babbage
Ada Lovelace
Which famous poet's daughter was Ada Lovelace?
William Wordsworth
Percy Shelley
Lord Byron
Who developed the series of electromechanical machines called bombes to assist in codebreaking during World War II?
Alan Turing
John von Neumann
Herman Goldstine
Who was the director of the 1890 census in the US who accepted Herman Hollerith's proposal?
Robert Porter
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
James Ritty
Who designed and patented the first practical typewriter with a QWERTY keyboard?
Dorr E. Felt
Christopher Latham Sholes
William S. Burroughs
Who was the inventor of the Comptometer, an early mechanical calculator?
James Ritty
Konrad Zuse
Dorr E. Felt
Who was the businessman that invented the cash register to prevent clerks from stealing?
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
James Ritty
Herman Hollerith
Who became the president of C-T-R in 1914 and later led it to become IBM?
Herman Hollerith
John Mauchly
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Who was the German engineer that developed electromechanical computers on his own before World War II?
Konrad Zuse
Max Newman
Frederic Williams
Who was the Chinese mathematician that led the computer research team after returning from the US and dreamed of China's "computing freedom"?
Min Naida
Xia Peisu
Hua Luogeng
Who was the graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania that joined John Mauchly to build the ENIAC?
Herman Goldstine
J. Presper Eckert
Alan Turing
Who was the famous mathematician that helped design the atomic bomb and influenced the design of the EDVAC?
Ada Lovelace
Alan Turing
John von Neumann
Who was the professor of mathematics at Manchester University that sought to construct an EDVAC-like computer and built the Manchester Baby?
Max Newman
Frederic Williams
Maurice Wilkes
Who was the engineer recruited by Max Newman to assist in building the Manchester Baby?
Maurice Wilkes
Frederic Williams
John von Neumann
Who was the physicist at Cambridge University that built the EDSAC?
Maurice Wilkes
Max Newman
Frederic Williams
Who was the computer scientist that realized a computer could be used as its own plan preparation machine?
Ada Lovelace
Heinz Rutishauser
Alan Turing
Who was the army officer that supervised the computer team in Pennsylvania to compute firing tables and presented John Mauchly's proposal to the army?
John von Neumann
Herman Goldstine
J. Presper Eckert
Who was the person that translated a report about the Analytical Engine, making her considered the world's first computer programmer?
Ada Lovelace
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
Who was the person that proposed to the German army to fund Konrad Zuse's larger computer project?
A German military official
Konrad Zuse himself
One of Zuse's friends
Who was the person that designed the first general-purpose electronic computer, the ENIAC?
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
Herman Goldstine
Alan Turing
Who was the person that obtained a copy of the First Draft and was convinced of its significance to build the EDSAC?
Frederic Williams
Maurice Wilkes
Max Newman
Who was the person that was fired by Patterson in 1911 and later became the president of C-T-R?
Herman Hollerith
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
James Ritty
Who was the person that invented the microchip independently in the late 1950s?
John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain
Konrad Zuse
Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby
Who was the person that led the "reclamation team" in China's computer research?
Hua Luogeng
Min Naida
Xia Peisu
Who was the person that submitted a proposal to the University of Pennsylvania in 1942 to build a high-speed electronic calculator?
J. Presper Eckert
John Mauchly
Herman Goldstine
Who was the person that was known for his contributions to theoretical computer science with the concept of the Turing Machine?
John von Neumann
Ada Lovelace
Alan Turing
Who was the person that designed the mercury delay line memory used in some early computers?
Frederic Williams
Maurice Wilkes
Max Newman
Who was the person that was one of the key players in the mid-twentieth century computer industry and led IBM to dominate the market?
Herman Hollerith
James Ritty
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Who was the person that first used punched cards to record demographic information for the census?
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Robert Porter
Herman Hollerith
Which machine was the first general-purpose programmable electronic computer?
The Analytical Engine
The ENIAC
The Difference Engine
What machine did Charles Babbage design to automate the production of navigational tables?
The Difference Engine
The Analytical Engine
The Turing Machine
Which machine was the world's first stored-program computer?
The EDVAC
The EDSAC
The Manchester Baby
What was the name of the early mechanical calculator invented by Dorr E. Felt?
The Burroughs
The Comptometer
The Hollerith
Which machine was designed by Konrad Zuse and used binary arithmetic?
The ENIAC
The Z1
The Manchester Baby
What was the name of the machine that used punched cards for data input and output in the early days of computing?
The ENIAC
The IBM 650
The UNIVAC
Which machine was built based on the design of the EDVAC and was the first practical stored-program computer?
The EDSAC
The Manchester Mark 1
The Turing Machine
What was the name of the electromechanical machines developed by Alan Turing to assist in codebreaking during World War II?
The ENIAC
The bombes
The Analytical Engine
Which machine was the first to use vacuum tubes for calculation?
The Difference Engine
The ENIAC
The Analytical Engine
What was the name of the machine that had a type-setting mechanism proposed by Charles Babbage?
The Difference Engine
The Analytical Engine
The Manchester Baby
Which machine was developed by IBM and became very successful in the 1950s?
The Manchester Mark 1
The UNIVAC
The IBM 650
What was the name of the early adding machine that could print out results onto a roll of paper?
The Hollerith's tabulating machine
The Burroughs' adding machine
The Comptometer
Which machine was designed to solve the problem of calculating firing tables for the US army?
The EDVAC
The Manchester Baby
The ENIAC
What was the name of the machine that used mercury delay line as memory?
The EDSAC
The Manchester Baby
The EDVAC
Which machine was an early form of computer memory that consisted of a series of small magnetic rings?
Delay lines
Microchips
Core memory
What was the name of the machine that used integrated circuits for both memory and processors?
The ENIAC
Modern computers
The IBM 650
What was the name of the machine that was a novelty musical instrument and inspired Herman Hollerith's punched-card system?
The organette
The piano
The violin
Which machine was the first to run a successful program in England?
The EDSAC
The Turing Machine
The Manchester Baby
What was the name of the machine that used punched cards for census data tabulation in the US?
The IBM 650
The Hollerith's tabulating machine
The UNIVAC
Which machine was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert?
The ENIAC
The EDVAC
The Manchester Baby
What was the name of the machine that was an early form of mechanical calculator mass-produced in the early twentieth century?
The Comptometer
The adding machine
The Hollerith's machine
Which machine was the first to use transistors instead of vacuum tubes?
Computers in the late 1940s
Computers in the 1950s
Computers in the 1960s
What was the name of the machine that was a filing cabinet and document storage system produced by Rand Kardex Company?
The filing cabinet
The Rand Kardex
The Remington Rand
Which machine was the first to use a magnetic tape drive for data storage?
The UNIVAC
The IBM 701
The ENIAC
What was the name of the machine that was China's first general-purpose digital electronic computer?
The ENIAC
The Manchester Baby
The 103 machine
Which machine was the first to use a disk storage system?
Computers in the 1970s
Computers in the 1980s
Computers in the 1960s
Which of the following is an early form of computer memory?
SSD
Delay lines
Cloud storage
What was the main function of the assembler in the development of software?
To directly execute programs
To design the user interface
To translate assembly language into machine code
What hardware component was replaced by transistors in early computers?
Microchips
Vacuum tubes
Core memory
Which of the following is a characteristic of machine code?
It is written in English words.
It uses mnemonic instructions.
It consists of unique numeric codes for machine instructions.
What was the significance of the integrated circuit (microchip) in computer hardware?
It allowed more transistors to be packed into less space.
It increased the size of computers.
It made computers slower.
What software innovation made programming easier by using shorthand syntax?
A. Machine code
B. Assembly language
C. High-level programming language
Which hardware technology provided random access to data, improving storage efficiency?
Disk storage
Punched cards
Magnetic tape
What was the main drawback of vacuum tubes in computer hardware?
They were too small.
They were difficult to install.
They consumed a lot of power and generated heat.
In the early days of computing, what was the primary input and output medium for programs and data?
USB drives
Punched cards
DVDs
What was the role of core memory in comparison to other memory technologies?
It retained data when powered off and was relatively inexpensive for a long time.
It was the fastest but most expensive.
It was only used in supercomputers.
Why was the ENIAC developed?
To improve office efficiency.
To assist in scientific research on astronomy.
To meet the military's need for calculating firing tables.
What led to the invention of the Difference Engine?
The need to automate the production of navigational tables for the navy.
The desire to create a machine for general-purpose calculations.
The demand for more accurate accounting in businesses.
What was the main reason for the creation of the Manchester Baby?
To compete with American computer companies.
To explore the concept of stored-program computing.
To solve complex mathematical problems in academia.
Why did Herman Hollerith design his punched-card system?
To make it easier to play music.
To improve the efficiency of census data processing.
To store personal information securely.
What was the driving force behind the development of the telegraph?
To meet the communication needs of railway companies.
To transmit news quickly around the world.
To enable long-distance communication between friends.
What led to the invention of the adding machine?
To be used as a teaching tool in schools.
To simplify the process of financial calculations in offices.
To help people learn arithmetic faster.
Why was the cash register invented?
To display the time in stores.
To calculate discounts automatically.
To prevent theft by clerks and keep track of transactions.
What was the reason for the development of the EDSAC?
To improve on the design of the Manchester Baby.
To create a computer for military encryption.
To provide a more user-friendly computer for the general public.
Why was the 103 machine developed in China?
To follow the trend of international computer development.
To showcase Chinese engineering capabilities.
To meet the country's need for independent computing technology.
The main reason the Analytical Engine was conceived was
To control industrial machinery directly
To play complex games
To perform general mathematical operations and be programmable
What motivated the development of the Z1 by Konrad Zuse?
To build a machine for personal entertainment
To assist in the design of buildings as a civil engineer
To explore binary arithmetic and create an efficient calculating device
The invention of the Comptometer was mainly due to:
The demand for quick and accurate addition in offices
The need for a device to count inventory in warehouses
To help students learn arithmetic
Why was the magnetic tape drive incorporated into early computers like the UNIVAC?
To make the computer look more advanced
To provide a faster and larger storage solution compared to punched cards
To record the sounds made by the computer
What led to the creation of the core memory?
To overcome the limitations of delay lines and provide a more reliable memory technology
To make the computer more colorful
To reduce the size of the computer for portability
The development of the microchip was driven by:
The need to integrate multiple transistors and make circuits more compact
The desire to make computer components more expensive
To make computers slower for better control