Social Science Questions & answers
Howard Aiken designed which electromechanical computer built by IBM -
CORRECT ANSWER-Harvard Mark 1
John Backus worked at IBM in the 1950s and made a major contribution through
his realization that? - CORRECT ANSWER-The most expensive cost of running
a computer was paying human programmers.
Firing tables were created primarily at the Ballistics Research Laboratory in? -
CORRECT ANSWER-Aberdeen, Maryland
The ENIAC was superior to previous mechanical calculators for its ability to? -
CORRECT ANSWER-Preform conditional branching
The operating system GNU was written by? - CORRECT ANSWER-Richard
Stallman
The program which translated assembly language into numeric codes is called
a(n)? - CORRECT ANSWER-Assembler
Which term means, "forms of writing which branch or perform on request"? -
CORRECT ANSWER-Hypertext
Major advancements in computer technology during the 1970s and 1980s
revolved around? - CORRECT ANSWER-Making computers smaller and
cheaper
What did not happen during the growth of IBM? - CORRECT ANSWER-The IBM
5650 was more expensive than 701 or 702.
The original patent on the ENIAC was finalized in the? - CORRECT
ANSWER-1960
Howard Aiken designed which electromechanical computer built by IBM -
CORRECT ANSWER-Harvard Mark 1
John Backus worked at IBM in the 1950s and made a major contribution through
his realization that? - CORRECT ANSWER-The most expensive cost of running
a computer was paying human programmers.
Firing tables were created primarily at the Ballistics Research Laboratory in? -
CORRECT ANSWER-Aberdeen, Maryland
The ENIAC was superior to previous mechanical calculators for its ability to? -
CORRECT ANSWER-Preform conditional branching
The operating system GNU was written by? - CORRECT ANSWER-Richard
Stallman
The program which translated assembly language into numeric codes is called
a(n)? - CORRECT ANSWER-Assembler
Which term means, "forms of writing which branch or perform on request"? -
CORRECT ANSWER-Hypertext
Major advancements in computer technology during the 1970s and 1980s
revolved around? - CORRECT ANSWER-Making computers smaller and
cheaper
What did not happen during the growth of IBM? - CORRECT ANSWER-The IBM
5650 was more expensive than 701 or 702.
The original patent on the ENIAC was finalized in the? - CORRECT
ANSWER-1960
