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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. The telegraph invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail was based on what function?
2. Who wrote the work known as the Principia Mathematica?
3. What was difficult for people to accept about telegraph communications?
4. What new word did Claude Shannon, a mathematical researcher at Bell Labs, introduce in the in-house journal called "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"?
5. How many words were contained in "A Table Alphabeticall?"
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the purpose behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary?
2. What impact did the electric telegraph have on the world?
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. What innovation was made in the 17th century by Scot mathematician John Napier?
5. What were examples of the use of mathematics in the Babylonian culture?
6. What did Claude Shannon create from examining the statistical makeup of the English language?
7. What advanced form of communication was beginning to emerge in the 1840s?
8. Who was Claude Shannon?
9. What was the purpose of Cawdrey's wordbook, "A Table Alphabeticall?"
10. What culture developed the earliest known method of writing language with the use of pictures to represent things?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain why electricity opened up the field of communication? How did the electric telegraph function and why was it superior to the earlier French version? How did the telegraph impact global communications?
Essay Topic 2
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"?
Essay Topic 3
What vision for the future did Alan Turing and Claude Shannon share? What was the purpose and functionality of Turing's "imaginary machine?"
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