CS466 Quiz 1 Fall 2012
Name:______Date:______
1. The following terms: circuit boards, keyboards, and disk drives would describe ______
2. ______invented the analytical engine which was one of the early computing devices.
3. Computer ______is the collection of programs that provide the instructions that a computer carries out.
4. A(n) ______is a mental model that removes complex details.
5. The eighteenth century device that used cards with holes punched in them to dictate the design of woven cloth was known as ______.
6. First generation computers were built using ______to store information.
7. John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William B. Shockley won a Nobel Prize for inventing the ______.
8. Second generation computers had memory made from ______, tiny doughnut-shaped devices that could each store one bit of information.
9. The set of instructions that each type of computer is designed to understand is called ______.
10. ______was a nineteenth century mathematician who worked with Charles Babbage and his Analytical Engine, and is considered to be the first computer programmer.
11. A Turing machine is an abstract mathematical model developed by ______that laid the foundation for theoretical computing.
12. A ______is an input/output device with a keyboard and screen that allows the user to interact with a computer.
13. ______law states that computers will either double in power at the same price or halve in cost for the same power every 18 months.
14. In 1973, Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs invented the ______, which used a cheap coaxial cable to connect computers into a network.
15. In the earliest electronic computers, programmers had to write machine language code expressed as ______digits
16. FORTRAN and COBOL are two of the earliest ______programming languages.
17. ______Language created a buffer between the programmer and the machine hardware by the end of the first generation of computer software.
18. ______was the first commercially successful spreadsheet.
19. The ______programming language was designed by Sun Microsystems in the 1990s.
20. A British researcher at the CERN physics lab, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the ______.