by BlastRoom
Match computing pioneers with the systems, programs, and ideas they created.
#computer_science

30 questions
One question set, multiple game modes. Tap any game to see it in action. Not sure which to pick?
Answer to place stones and capture territory.
Outrun the snow together.
Earn blasts, then hunt the other team.
Answer to earn energy, then climb.

The class blasts through walls together.
Bid on mystery lots. Most money wins.
Sell tours. Nice, standard, or a total scam.
Answer, restock, and serve the rush.
More correct answers pulls the rope your way.
Answer, then shoot down the alien wave.
Answer, then tap to leap the frozen ridge.
Ada Lovelace's notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine included a method for a specific calculation. What did that method compute?
What did Charles Babbage design as a general-purpose mechanical computing machine?
Alan Turing's 1936 paper on computable numbers described an imaginary machine that follows simple rules. What big idea did this paper address?
Grace Hopper created a tool that let programmers write instructions in a more human-readable form before translating them for a computer. What was the tool?
What computing design did John von Neumann set out in his 1945 report on EDVAC?
Tim Berners-Lee proposed a linked-document system at CERN in 1989 and wrote its first browser, server, HTML, and HTTP. What system was this?
Margaret Hamilton led an MIT team that wrote onboard software for a major spaceflight program. What did her team create?
Vint Cerf worked with Bob Kahn on a protocol suite that lets separate networks exchange data. What did they design?
Radia Perlman developed a protocol that prevents loops in bridged Ethernet networks. What was it?
Who developed mathematical ideas that founded information theory, including a way to measure information?
Who co-developed a frequency-hopping communication technique during World War II?
Who calculated orbital trajectories for NASA and personally checked the computer's calculations for John Glenn's Friendship 7 mission?
Who supervised NACA's West Area Computing group and later became an expert FORTRAN programmer at NASA?
Who was part of the IBM team that developed the original IBM Personal Computer?
Who led the development of the Fairchild Channel F, a console that used interchangeable game cartridges?
Who designed the Apple I and Apple II personal computers?
Whose 1965 observation about rapidly increasing numbers of components on integrated circuits became known as Moore's Law?
Who became NASA's first Black female engineer after beginning her career as a computer at NACA?
A programming language released in 1991 is known for readable code and blocks marked by indentation. Who created it?
A programming language was created in 1995 for adding behavior to web pages and is now widely used in browsers. Who created it?
Which pioneer created Smalltalk, an influential object-oriented programming language developed at Xerox PARC?
Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage both worked on ideas for the Analytical Engine. Which statement correctly matches each person's contribution?
The web and the internet are related but different. Which statement correctly assigns the work?
Alan Turing and John von Neumann are often associated with foundational computing ideas. Which statement is correct?
Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton made different software contributions. Which statement correctly matches them?
Claude Shannon and Hedy Lamarr both contributed to communication technology. Which statement is correct?
Katherine Johnson's calculations supported a NASA mission in which John Glenn orbited Earth. Which mission was it?
Hedy Lamarr's frequency-hopping work was intended to help control which kind of World War II technology?
Mark Dean was on the IBM team behind a famous 1981 machine that helped bring computers into homes and small offices. What type of machine was it?
Jerry Lawson's cartridge-based work served which game system?
Crack the passcode before the zombies get in.
Answer, then swat bugs for bonus points.
Race through questions at your own speed.
Same question on every screen. Fastest wins.

Pick a tile, answer, hit bonuses and steals.
The Digital Divide and Access to Technology
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