Academic Decathlon Social Science

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Across
  1. 1. The first wireless computer network; used radio waves to transmit
  2. 3. First standalone GPS
  3. 6. The first commercially produced computer
  4. 7. Early version of a calculator
  5. 8. Handheld touchscreen computer
  6. 10. American programmer who popularized the concept of a programming language; helped design the UNIVAC
  7. 13. Inventor of the EDSAC
  8. 15. Founded by the CUNY school system; had access to IBM mainframes
  9. 17. The first commercial computer company
  10. 18. Computers performing actions that normally require human intelligence
  11. 19. Documents that are hyperlinked to other documents
  12. 20. Programmers create classes and design procedures to operate on those classes
  13. 22. Software that runs between the hardware and applications; manages the computer's memory and resource allocation
  14. 23. Software application that facilitates mathematical analysis
  15. 26. PDA and later smartphone by Research in Motion
  16. 27. An application that drives sales of the entire computer just to use the app
  17. 29. Developer of BASIC
  18. 30. code A computer program written in machine language
Down
  1. 2. Multiple users share a single computer
  2. 4. Inventor of the World Wide Web
  3. 5. Used an Intel 8088 chip, Microsoft BASIC, and Microsoft OS
  4. 9. Created by Steve Jobs; too expensive for the average computer
  5. 11. Users operate a computer by selecting icons on a screen to perform actions
  6. 12. An agreement on how data is formatted, encoded, and transmitted
  7. 14. Computer memory made of a lattice of magnetic rings and wires
  8. 16. First long-distance computer network
  9. 21. Early web browser that shared files on a server
  10. 24. computers transmit data through cables
  11. 25. Computers intended for single use at a time; fits on a desk and includes a keyboard and display screen
  12. 26. Founder of Microsoft
  13. 28. Instructions to accomplish a certain task; programs express algorithms in code