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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. How were telegraph messages priced?
2. Who was the sixth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary?
3. How did Bertrand Russell address conflicting results produced by the Principia Mathematica? the problem of these recursive paradoxes by simply making them against the rules of his formal system.
4. What type of lists did Babbage create about livestock, fabric, letter combinations in various languages and other facts?
5. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?
Short Essay Questions
1. After the use of pictures, what were the next two stages of language development?
2. What culture developed the earliest known method of writing language with the use of pictures to represent things?
3. By reducing information to its elemental form, Claude Shannon opened up a new field of scientific inquiry that proved to have applications not only in communications, but in what other fields?
4. By the 1930s the telephone had replace the telegraph as the most advanced means of communication. What advantages did the telephone have over the telegraph?
5. What advanced form of communication was beginning to emerge in the 1840s?
6. Who developed the Principia Mathematica and what did it provide?
7. Why did Ada Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?
8. How was binary code of 0s and 1s which is the foundation for computing first conceived and by whom?
9. Who invented the "first" telegraph?
10. What was the purpose of Cawdrey's wordbook, "A Table Alphabeticall?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is a random number? What makes a number computable? What were Gregory Chaitin's conclusions about the complexity of numbers?
Essay Topic 2
What vision for the future did Alan Turing and Claude Shannon share? What was the purpose and functionality of Turing's "imaginary machine?"
Essay Topic 3
Why is receiving too much information a problem? What innovations on the Internet have been developed to deal with the deluge of information it contains?
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