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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of lists did Babbage create about livestock, fabric, letter combinations in various languages and other facts?

2. What did a young mathematician named Kurt Gödel conclude about conflicting statements?

3. What were the benefits of the early logarithm tables?

4. There was no "looking up" of information prior to what invention?

5. Each square of Turing's imaginary machine would have what coding?

Short Essay Questions

1. In modern times, what innovation has had the most impact on language?

2. What were examples of the use of mathematics in the Babylonian culture?

3. What was the purpose behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary?

4. Who developed the Principia Mathematica and what did it provide?

5. How was the "telephone number" born?

6. What impact did the electric telegraph have on the world?

7. What technological breakthrough resulted from Claude Shannon's theories and work?

8. What innovation was made in the 17th century by Scot mathematician John Napier?

9. What were the two stages of a "bit" as conceived by Claude Shannon?

10. What advanced form of communication was beginning to emerge in the 1840s?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain in detail the drum communications methods of the sub-Saharan African tribes and how it relates to the Morse Code. What analysis was made of the Kele language and why was it important in understanding the transferring of information?

Essay Topic 2

What did Charles Bennet put forward to possibly replace "bits" in information processing? How was Bennet's work related to quantum physics?

Essay Topic 3

What is the relationship between genes and DNA? What are the properties of DAN and where is it found in an organism?

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