Computer Pioneers

Who is known as the 'Father of Computers'?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Charles Babbage

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

Which mathematician is considered the first computer programmer?

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

• Albert Einstein

• Ada Lovelace

Who is known for their work on breaking the German Enigma code during World War II?

• Marie Curie

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

• Alan Turing

Which computer scientist coined the term 'debugging'?

• Grace Hopper

• Ada Lovelace

• Niklaus Wirth

• Alan Turing

Who developed the concept of a stored-program computer?

• John von Neumann

• Charles Babbage

• Ada Lovelace

• Alan Turing

Which engineer built the first programmable computer, the Z3?

• Konrad Zuse

• Ada Lovelace

• Alan Turing

• Charles Babbage

What was the name of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer?

• ENIAC

• ABCD

• Colossus

• IBM 701

Who is credited with the invention of the first compiler for a programming language?

• Niklaus Wirth

• Grace Hopper

• Ada Lovelace

• Alan Turing

Which computer scientist introduced the concept of machine-independent programming languages?

• Alan Turing

• Tim Berners-Lee

• John Backus

• Grace Hopper

Who proposed the idea of a universal machine capable of executing any set of instructions?

• Marie Curie

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

• Alan Turing