CS Trivia!

2. Named after the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, whose work introduced the concept to the West
5. Named after George Boole, who created the logic system that underpins modern digital circuits in the mid-1800s
8. A security system that controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules
9. A device that forwards data packets between computer networks, creating an overlay internetwork
10. A programming technique where a function calls itself to solve a problem

1. The core part of an operating system, managing system resources and communication between hardware and software
3. Grace Hopper, known as the "mother of computing," developed one of the first of these in the 1950s
4. The concept of storing frequently accessed data dates back to early computing systems like the IBM System/360
6. Used by Julius Caesar to protect military messages, one of the earliest forms of this was a simple shift cipher
7. The base-2 number system used by computers, consisting of only 0s and 1s.