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WorksheetsAda Lovelace Day
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 11mins
Grace Hopper, a computer pioneer and naval officer was the first person to call computer problems
A cockroach
A bug
A spider
"Working as designed"
Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born American actress, co-developed a radio guidance system that inspired Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
TRUE
FALSE
Katherine Johnson is a mathematician who worked for NASA
She was crucial to the success of the first ever US space flight
She inspired the movie Hidden Figures
She was awarded by President Obama with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
All of the above
Mary Wilkes is a computer programmer, known to be the first
Internet chat user
home computer user
video game player
Youtuber
Adele Goldberg participated in the development of what became the basis for
Amadeus Terminal Emulator (ATE)
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
Graphical User interface (GUI)
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Radia Perlman, the mother of the Internet
developed a child-friendly version computer programming language
invented the STP protocol fundamental to the internet
wrote a book about layers 2 and 3 of computer network
All of the above
Karen Sparck-Jones's developed the concept of Inverse Document Frequency which is a standard
in web search engines like Google
in spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel
in word process like Microsoft Word
in file storage like Google Drive
Annie Easley was a trailblazer for gender and racial diversity in STEM. She is known for being
A unicorn founder & CEO
A NASA rocket scientist
A computer scientist and a US Navy rear admiral
VP of Research at the MIT
Elizabeth J. Feinler ran the Network Information Center, her group developed the first
Reddit group for Women in IT: r/WomenInIT
computer connected to bluetooth
Internet yellow and white-page servers
green energy data center
Margaret Hamilton directed the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Lab. She's standing next to
the Apollo guidance software she and her team developed
the White and Yellow pages over the years she worked at the MIT
the scientific reviews she read so far
the papers she and her team published
Who is Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer?
