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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. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were working on separate cryptography project and shared what astounding possibility?

2. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?

3. Shannon proposed a solution for overcoming extra noise in his communication model that mimicked what early communicators?

4. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?

5. Each square of Turing's imaginary machine would have what coding?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who invented the "first" telegraph?

2. What impact did the electric telegraph have on the world?

3. Who first conceived the idea of a machine that could think and under what circumstances?

4. By the 1930s the telephone had replace the telegraph as the most advanced means of communication. What advantages did the telephone have over the telegraph?

5. How was the "telephone number" born?

6. Who was Claude Shannon?

7. What did Claude Shannon create from examining the statistical makeup of the English language?

8. What advanced form of communication was beginning to emerge in the 1840s?

9. After the use of pictures, what were the next two stages of language development?

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

Provides descriptions and the functionality of the "Differential Analyzer" and the "Principia Mathematica." How did early technological advancements lead to the merging of math and logic which lead to modern computing.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Norbert Weiner's views on the work and theories of Claude Shannon. Explain the circumstances under which Weiner coined the phrase "cybernetics". What was George Miller's observation on the capacity for the human mind to retain information?

Essay Topic 3

What kind of "telegraph" was invented by two French brothers and how did it function. What was the downside of this invention? Why was human error a factor in this process?

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