👤 Computer Personalities कंप्यूटर से जुड़े व्यक्तित्व
14 exam-ready facts · 14 MCQs
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Charles Babbage is called the 'Father of the Computer'; he designed the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine.
The Analytical Engine (described in 1837) was the first design for a general-purpose programmable mechanical computer, but it was never completed in Babbage's lifetime.
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Q1Who is called the 'Father of the Computer'?
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Correct answer: B — Charles Babbage
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Ada Lovelace is regarded as the world's first computer programmer; she wrote an algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine.
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Q2Who is regarded as the world's first computer programmer?
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Correct answer: C — Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace published (1843) an algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers on the Analytical Engine. -
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The computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in the 1960s (the first prototype was built by Bill English).
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Q3Who invented the computer mouse?
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Correct answer: C — Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart developed the mouse at Stanford Research Institute and demonstrated it in 1968. -
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The Linux operating system kernel was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991.
Linux is open source; Android is also based on the Linux kernel.
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Q4Who created the Linux kernel?
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Correct answer: C — Linus Torvalds
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The C programming language was developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs (around 1972).
Ritchie also co-created the UNIX operating system with Ken Thompson.
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Q5Who developed the C programming language?
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Correct answer: D — Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie created C at Bell Labs. Stroustrup created C++ and Gosling created Java. -
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James Gosling is called the father of the Java programming language; Java was developed at Sun Microsystems (released in 1995).
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Q6Who is called the father of the Java programming language?
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Correct answer: A — James Gosling
James Gosling developed Java at Sun Microsystems. -
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The term 'Artificial Intelligence' was coined by John McCarthy in the 1955 Dartmouth proposal; the 1956 Dartmouth workshop is regarded as the founding of AI as a field.
McCarthy also created the LISP programming language.
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Q7Who coined the term 'Artificial Intelligence'?
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Correct answer: B — John McCarthy
John McCarthy coined the term in the 1955 Dartmouth proposal. -
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Alan Turing is regarded as the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence; he proposed the 'Turing machine'.
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Q8Who proposed the concept of the 'Turing machine'?
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Correct answer: D — Alan Turing
Turing proposed it in 1936; von Neumann is linked with the stored-program architecture. -
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The stored-program architecture, in which programs and data share one memory, is called the 'von Neumann architecture' after John von Neumann.
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Q9The stored-program architecture is named after whom?
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Correct answer: A — John von Neumann
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Microsoft was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
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Q10Who founded Microsoft?
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Correct answer: C — Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Gates and Allen founded Microsoft in 1975; Ellison co-founded Oracle. -
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Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
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Q11In which year was Apple founded?
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Correct answer: B — 1976
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Grace Hopper developed one of the first compilers (A-0) and influenced the development of the COBOL language.
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Q12Which computer scientist influenced the development of COBOL?
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Correct answer: A — Grace Hopper
Hopper is linked with COBOL; Ada Lovelace is regarded as the first programmer. -
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The Python programming language was created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991.
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Q13Who created the Python programming language?
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Correct answer: D — Guido van Rossum
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Facebook was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard classmates.
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Q14In which year was Facebook launched?
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Correct answer: B — 2004
Facebook launched in 2004; Twitter came in 2006.