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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. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were working on separate cryptography project and shared what astounding possibility?

2. What jobs were created to handle the increasing number of telephone calls?

3. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?

4. Who invented the telegraph?

5. What were conflicting statements created by the Principia Mathematica called?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who first at the concept of "bandwith" and in what context was it first conceived?

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

4. While Shannon worked on secret cryptography projects for the US government during World War II, what theory about information did he conceive?

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

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

7. Why did Ada Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

8. What did Claude Shannon create from examining the statistical makeup of the English language?

9. After the use of pictures, what were the next two stages of language development?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the various theories on entropy. How was entropy important to information theory?

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

What were early theories about genetics? What are genes? What were the opinions and theories on genes expressed by zoologist Richard Dawson in his book, "The Selfish Gene"?

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