Module 1 Introduction to Computers

It is programmable electronic device that accepts raw data as input and processes it with a set of instructions to produce the result as output.

• Steve Jobs

• Computer

• Mouse

• IBM

"Father of Modern Computer"

• Charles Babbage

• Seymour Cray

• Allan Mathison Turing

• Ada Lovelace

"Father of Supercomputing"

• Charles Babbage

• Seymour Cray

• Allan Mathison Turing

• Ada Lovelace

First Programmer

• Charles Babbage

• Seymour Cray

• Allan Mathison Turing

• Ada Lovelace

Father of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

• Charles Babbage

• Seymour Cray

• Allan Mathison Turing

• Ada Lovelace

It was a wooden rack which has metal rods with beads mounted on them and believed to be the first computer.

• Abacus

• Napier's Bone

• Pascaline

• Leibnitz Wheel

In this calculating tool, he used 9 different ivory strips or bones marked with numbers to multiply and divide.

• Abacus

• Napier's Bone

• Pascaline

• Leibnitz Wheel

It is also known as Arithmetic Machine or Adding Machine.

• Abacus

• Napier's Bone

• Pascaline

• Leibnitz Wheel

It is a cylinder with a set of teeth of incremental lengths which, when coupled to a counting wheel.

• Abacus

• Napier's Bone

• Pascaline

• Leibnitz Wheel

There are five computer generations and every generation, it evolves, it improves.

What is the FIRST GENERATION of computers?

• Vacuum Tube Based

• Transistor Based

• Integrated Circuit Based

• VLSI Microprocessor Based

• ULSI Microprocessor Based