Chap1ScavengerHunt

Computer Technology Information Scavenger Hunt Find WWW sites that provide information for the following statements. Key the answer to the question in a word document and cut and paste the URL where you found the information in the space below the answer. Be sure to number each answer and URL so I can follow your answers easily.

1. Name of daughter of Lord Byron, mentored by Babbage, called by some the first programmer.

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2. Had a job to speed up the 1890 census and devised a punched-card machine.

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3. In 1924 Thomas J. Watson changed the company's name to this name.

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4. A 1973 Federal Court ruling officially credited Dr. John V. Atanasoff with this invention.

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5. Probably the original mechanical counting device - traced back 5,000 years.

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6. This inventor, painter, and sculptor sketched ideas for a mechanical adding machine.

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7. Created a punched-card system to direct movements of needles, thread, and fabric.

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8. Howard Aiken completed this electromechanical computer.

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9. Dr. John W. ? and Presper ? created the first fully operational electronic computer called? (3 answers!)

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10. IBM introduced the IBM Personal computer or PC in what year.

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11. Graphic images where each pixel is bit-mapped and take up more memory.

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12. Graphic images defined by geometric shapes each of which can define the attributes of many pixels. These use less memory.

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13. This professor of mathematics joined the Navy in 1943. She led a distinguished career which included developing software for the UNIVAC1. She led the effort to develop the a business language that eventually became COBOL.

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14. This object-oriented version of C programming language is used to develop software for PC's such as Fractal Design Painter, Lotus 123, and games.

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