LE/EECS 1520 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Abacus - ANSWER earliest computing device, finger-powered calculator
Algorithm - ANSWER a finite set of unambiguous instructions to solve a problem
Jacquard Loom - ANSWER used punch cards to later make into coding
Claude Shannon - ANSWER introduced application of Boolean Logic and was the father
of the modern information age
Von Neumann Architecture - ANSWER Basis for modern computers
Alan Turing - ANSWER Broke the Enigma Code
ENIAC - ANSWER Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Grace Murray Hopper - ANSWER cCreated first complier
Transistor - ANSWER Most important invention of 20th century, replaced bulky vacuum
tubes
, Integrated Circuit - ANSWER - Many transistors on small surface
- lowered costs of computers
Margaret Hamilton - ANSWER - Pioneer for software engineering
- Led team that coded computers aiding in travel to the moon
Gordon Bell - ANSWER Developed "mini-computers"
2 main ways of representing information - ANSWER Analog and Digital
Analog Data - ANSWER - Continuous representation of data
- ex: thermometer
Digital Data - ANSWER - Discrete representation of data
- Easier to process on computers
- ex: digital clock
Conversion from Analog to Digital Data - ANSWER - Step 1. Sampling: turning
continuous data into discrete snapshots
- Step 2. Quantization: converts infinite range of values into finite one
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Abacus - ANSWER earliest computing device, finger-powered calculator
Algorithm - ANSWER a finite set of unambiguous instructions to solve a problem
Jacquard Loom - ANSWER used punch cards to later make into coding
Claude Shannon - ANSWER introduced application of Boolean Logic and was the father
of the modern information age
Von Neumann Architecture - ANSWER Basis for modern computers
Alan Turing - ANSWER Broke the Enigma Code
ENIAC - ANSWER Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Grace Murray Hopper - ANSWER cCreated first complier
Transistor - ANSWER Most important invention of 20th century, replaced bulky vacuum
tubes
, Integrated Circuit - ANSWER - Many transistors on small surface
- lowered costs of computers
Margaret Hamilton - ANSWER - Pioneer for software engineering
- Led team that coded computers aiding in travel to the moon
Gordon Bell - ANSWER Developed "mini-computers"
2 main ways of representing information - ANSWER Analog and Digital
Analog Data - ANSWER - Continuous representation of data
- ex: thermometer
Digital Data - ANSWER - Discrete representation of data
- Easier to process on computers
- ex: digital clock
Conversion from Analog to Digital Data - ANSWER - Step 1. Sampling: turning
continuous data into discrete snapshots
- Step 2. Quantization: converts infinite range of values into finite one
