The Innovators

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  1. 2. Nolan Bushnell founded this company Al Alcorn was his first hire
  2. 5. professor at MIT who was focused on AI; helped Professor McCarthy
  3. 11. senator who pushed for the creation of the internet; now the punchline of many jokes.
  4. 12. influential scientist in D.C. who acted like a politician at times
  5. 14. first programmer; programmed Babbage's Analytical engine
  6. 18. elements like silicon used in transistors
  7. 21. name of radio TI used to create the market for transistor radios.
  8. 22. Started by people who left Fairchild Semiconductors to make money
  9. 24. person who worked at CERN who was able to help with a lot of the work involved in creating the Web
  10. 25. Helped with the Mother of All Demos in 1968; helped to create PCs
  11. 26. famous woman who worked under Howard Aiken and then John Mauchly
  12. 27. name of google search algorithm
  13. 28. part of the software that controls memory.
  14. 30. company nicknamed the elephant because of it's size
  15. 31. intellectual property rights
  16. 32. Government created it; first version of the internet
  17. 33. One of Atari's biggest hit games
  18. 35. nickname for Steve Russell
  19. 36. both Page and Brin were rejected from this university
  20. 37. computer created by apple
  21. 38. last names of the founders of Apple
  22. 39. original name of Andy Grove(after removing accents)
  23. 40. first commercially funded place for innovation
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  1. 1. duo who created ENIAC and later EDVAC
  2. 3. One of the controversial reasons for the ARPANET's continued funding during cold war.
  3. 4. revolutionary form of data tranmission that made AT&T obsolete
  4. 6. basically a for profit version of what Andreessen and Bina created
  5. 7. "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the ________ survive." was Andy Grove's motto
  6. 8. first video game programmed by Steve Russell became open source and included on all PDP-1's shipped
  7. 9. computer in 1968 movie 2001:A Space Odyssey which goes rogue; in a homage to the first computer generated song it plays "Daisy Bell" as it dies.
  8. 10. model developed at Xerox PARC and used in MacintoshOS and Windows
  9. 13. computer language the made Microsoft popular when they made it work in the Altair.
  10. 15. became big transistor giant after breaking open a new market with the transistor radio; usually abbreviated as TI
  11. 16. created by one of the top three at Intel; became self-fulfilling prophecy and goal for microchips industry.
  12. 17. device that can act as a switch or an amplifier
  13. 19. multiple circuits on one chip
  14. 20. started by Arthur Rock after he came West
  15. 23. basic mechanism used by google search Algorithm; machine that travels from one page to another to index all pages.
  16. 29. last name of famous person who was at Bletchley Park during World War II
  17. 34. name for Santa Clara Valley
  18. 35. first Web server in the US
  19. 37. browser that Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina created at UIUC