End of Year Quiz

Originated the concept of a programmable general-purpose computer. Designed the Analytical Engine and built a prototype for a less powerful mechanical calculator.

• Charles Babbage

• John Backus

• John Atanasoff

• Frances E. Allan

Invented World Wide Web. With Robert Cailliau, sent first HTTP communication between client and server.

• John Backus

• Per Brinch Hansen

• George Boole

• Tim Berners-Lee

An English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognize that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and created the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first to recognize the full potential of a "computing machine" and the first computer programmer.

• John Mauchly

• Edward J McCluskey

• Ada Lovelace

• Jean E. Sammet

Formulated the von Neumann architecture upon which most modern computers are based.

• Alan Perlis

• Per Brinch Hansen

• Blasie Pascal

• John Von Neumann

Made several founding contributions to computer science, including the ____________ machine computational model, the conceiving of the stored program concept and the designing of the high-speed ACE design. Widely considered as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.

• Alan Turing

• An Wang

• Konrad Zuse

• Willis Ware

Created the Unix operating system, the B programming language, Plan 9 operating system, the first machine to achieve a Master rating in chess, and the UTF-8 encoding at Bell Labs and the Go programming language at Google

• Michael Stonebraker

• Ken Thompson

• Ivan Sutherland

• Richard Stallman

He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and a co-founder of Apple Inc., chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

• Sergey Brin

• Steve Jobs

• Larry Page

• Jack Dorsey

Principal founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, HE held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.

• Sergey Brin

• Steve Jobs

• Larry Page

• Bill Gates

created Lastminute.com in 1998, and as “the face” of Lastminute raised the profile of e-commerce ever higher in the public consciousness.

• James Gosling

• Linus Torvalds

• Martha Lane Fox

• Steve Shirley

is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language.

• James Gosling

• Linus Torvalds

• Martha Lane Fox

• Steve Shirley