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| Who wrote the book Decline and Fall of the American Programmer? |
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| Who first declared that the GOTO statement was considered harmful? |
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| Who was Apple's Lisa compute named after? |
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| Who is credited with the development of FORTRAN? |
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| Robert Metcalfe, 1973, Xerox |
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| Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, 1978 |
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| Developers of Visicalc, the first popular spreadsheet |
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| First commercial mechanical calculator |
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| She is often regarded as first programmer |
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| Developer of first CDC computers, followed by a line of eponymous supercomputers |
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| Sometimes credited as developer of the first Operating System: |
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| Developer of Eliza, the text program that acts as a therapist |
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| Gilbert Hyatt (controversial) |
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| First basic microcomputer patent filed in 1970 by.. |
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| Inventor of Pong, 1971, subsequent founder of Atari |
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| Developer of C (successor of BCPL and B) in 1972: Dennis Ritchie |
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| Developer of D, successor to C. Originally wrote Zortech C compiler. |
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| Author of "The Mythical Man Month" |
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| Robert T. Morris Jr. (Now teaching at MIT) |
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| He released the notorious worm that brought down in the Internet in 1988 |
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| Tim Berners-Lee (now Sir. Tim Berners-Lee) |
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| Mitch Kapor, creator of Lotus 1-2-3 |
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| he founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation. |
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| he created PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). |
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| Jerry Yang and David Filo |
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| Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift |
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| The term 'Yahoo' comes from what classic work of fiction? |
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| James Gosling, at Sun Microsystems |
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| Author of first text Adventure game. |
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| Will Crowther's Colossal Cave Adventure Game |
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| What game has the phrase "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike", "Xyzzy" |
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| Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, Brian Kernighan |
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| Creators of programming language/program AWK. |
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| What does this mean to a PERL programmer: "If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck." |
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| He is Python's Beneveolent Dictator for Life (BDFL) |
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| During WWII, more than 80 women mathematicians were hired to calculate ballistic trajectories using desktop calculators. What were these ladies called? |
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| He authored the influential paper on open source development called "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" |
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| Arguably the first programmable computer, created before the ABC computer in Iowa. |
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| Spacewar, MIT, Steve Russel, 1962 |
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| The predecessor of the Internet launched in 1969. |
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| MITS Altair 8800, although the Scelbi and Mark 8 can claim the same title. |
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| First consumer computers released in 1974/75 |
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| year of the release of the IBM PC. |
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| Year MS-DOS 1.0 was released. |
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| Allowing Microsoft to sell MS-DOS to other computer vendors. |
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| Brilliant term in the contract Bill Gates negotiated with IBM over MS-DOS. |
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| QDOS "quick and dirty O/S" from Tim Patterson |
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| Year the Macintosh was released. |
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| Year Windows 1.0 was released. |
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| Babbage Difference Engine |
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| Machine Ada Lovelace wrote first program for. |
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| First US census to store data on punched cards |
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| Bell Labs, 1969, on DEC minicomputers. |
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| When, where, and how UNIX was created. |
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| Year Apple I kit was made available for sale |
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| ABC, Iowa State, 1939, arguably the first automatic digital computer, John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry. |
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| Computer created at Iowa state, often claimed as first programmable computer. |
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| First minicomputer: DEC, PDP-1, 1960 |
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| Created at Dartmouth, 1964, Tom Kurtz and John Kenemy |
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| When was the Homebrew Computer Club (which included Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak) formed? |
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| What is the name of Microsoft's version of UNIX? |
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| Commodore's home microcomputer |
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| Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and arguably, Bill Joy in 1982. |
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| Sun Microsystems Founders? |
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| PepsiCo, President, in 1983 |
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| John Sculley left ____ to become Apple's CEO. |
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| Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? |
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| What is the famous quote supposedly used by Steve Jobs to lure John Sculley away from PepsiCo? |
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| Founder of Digital Equipment Co. in 1957. |
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| Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder, 1965 |
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| Moore's law, which says the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double every two years, was formulated by who, and when? |
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| Intel 4004, 1971 (Ted Hoff and Federico Faggin) |
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| First mass-produced, commercially available microprocessor. |
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| Year the Intel 8080 shipped |
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| Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, MIT, 1977 |
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| Who are the three authors of the RSA encryption algorithm |
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| Netscape Navigator, 1994. |
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| What was the most widely used web browser in the 90's, and when was it released? |
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| You Ain't Gonna Need It (A common way to discourage excess feature development.) |
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| Agile programming term YAGNI means: |
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| What is the original definition of 'daemon'? |
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| First product from Bill Gates and Paul Allen labeled as Micro-Soft: |
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| He wouldn't sign an NDA, he was late for the meeting, he made IBM wait, many other stories. |
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| Why IBM didn't license CP/M from Gary Kildall. |
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| Lisa (named after Steve Jobs' daugher) |
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| Apple computer that was one of the first commercially available PCs with a real GUI. |
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| German WWII encoding device broken by Alan Turing. |
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| Gracer Hopper found this as the source of a malfunction in the Mark 1, and created a beloved computing term. |
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| 1911, Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company |
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| Czech playwrite Karl Capek introduced this term in his play R.U.R. |
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| He created the first chess-playing machine. |
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| Time Magazine man of the year in 1982 |
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| Ashton Tate, makers of DBASE. |
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| Database company bought by Borland for $440M in 1981 |
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| Started HP in a garage in Palo Alto |
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| William Hewlett and Dave Packard did what in 1938? |
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| First computer sold with a monitor and keyboard: |
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| What magazine featured the MITS Altair 8800 on its cover in 1974? |
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| Where and when did Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft? |
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| Apple's famouse 1984 superbowl commercial in evoked what book? |
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| What company did Steve Jobs start after leaving apple in 1985? |
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| Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
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| What is the definition of RISC? |
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| Error code returned by bad HTTP requests. |
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| The bit bucket on UNIX/Linux systems. |
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| The prototype actors in security/crypto scenarios |
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| Who are Alice and Bob? The prototype actors in security/crypto problems |
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| Big Endian (opposite is Little Endian) |
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| How do we describe a system in which the MSB has the lowest address? |
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| The Camel Book: Programming Perl, by Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz |
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| What is the "camel book"? |
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