INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING

is any activity that utilizes computers to manage, process, and communicate critical information that is an integral part of modern industrial technology

• Computing

• Computer

• History of Computing

• Technology

The naive view of calculation must be overcome to utilize the power of computing. Therefore, the contributions of _____ _____________ to computing are considered the foundation of computing today.

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This civilization thrived in Mesopotamia (Iraq) from about 2000 BC until about 500 BC. Clay Cuneiform tables with mathematical texts were found and deciphered in 19th century.

• The Egyptians

• The Greeks

• The Babylonians

• The Romans

Measuring time, measuring floods, calculating the land area, bookkeeping, and calculating taxes are examples of practical problems that were solved by?

• The Greeks

• The Egyptians

• The Roman

• The Babylonians

Works by Pythagoras and Thales centered on Geometry were two of the most remarkable contribution to early Greek mathematics, approximately 500-600 BC.

• The Greeks

• The Egyptians

• The Romans

• The Babylonians

number system was one of their most considerable contributions to computing which uses letters to symbolize numbers in which the number consist of sequence of letters.

• The Romans

• The Greeks

• The Islamic Influence

• The Babylonians

Originated in the Islamic world where mathematicians and scholars reside in various countries in North Africa, Middle East and Spain

• The Greek

• The Romans

• The Islamic Influence

• The Egyptians

He along with George Boole, is one of the grandfathers of the computing field. Accurate mathematical tables fascinated him aware of the errors in the existing tables due to human error

• Charles Babbage

• Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz

• Grace Brewster Murray Hopper

• Gladys Mae West

She Concentrated on Large-Scale computer system and data-processing system for the analysis of information collected from satellites.

• Grace Brewster Murray Hopper

• Katherine Johnson

• Gladys Mae West

• George Boole

was a computer pioneer and naval officer, She receive her graduate degree in mathematics from Yale. She is best known for her trailblazing involvement in developing computer languages such as COBOL

• Gladys Mae West

• George Boole

• Grace Brewster Murray Hopper

• Katherine Johnson