1. Identify the gadget below.
2. Identify the person below who made a major contribution to the IT world.
Answer: This is the first computer mouse as created by Douglas Carl Engelbart.
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| Douglas Carl Engelbart |
Answer: Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the UNIX operating system. He died on 12th October, 2011, a week after Steve Job's Death.)
3. Identify this famous Indian born American.
Answer: Vinod Khosla (He
was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, where he served as its first
CEO and Chairman in the early 1980s. Presently he owns the Khosla Ventures.)
4. Identify the person below.
Answer: Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (He co-founded Apple Computers now Apple Inc. along with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. He single-handedly created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s, which contributed significantly to the microcomputer revolution of that era.
5. Identify the keyboard layout below named after its creator.
Answer: It is the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (DSK) patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak. Dvorak proponents claim the Dvorak layout uses less finger motion, increases typing rate, and reduces errors compared to the standard QWERTY keyboard. But still it has failed to replace the much used QWERTY Keypads.
DID YOU KNOW?
"Time" magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1982 was not a man at all but a machine - The Computer.
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