STS REVIEWER Flashcards
Who invented the printing press? AND WHEN?
JOHANNES GUTENBERG IN 1440
Back then they compiled actuarial tables and did engineering calculations and served as computers.
COMPUETRS
Who is the Father of Computer Age?
Wilhelm Schickard
It is an electromechanical machine that searched through the permutations, and by the end of the war the British were able to read all daily German Naval Enigma traffic.
bombe
It is a machine solving any problem, performing any task for which a program could be written.
computer
Who is the Filipino engineer who created the new silicon chip?
Diosdado P. Banatao
Who built a simple computer with around 8080 microprocessors that were hooked up to a keyboard and television?
Steve Wozniak
Steve Jobs called the computer described in No. 8 as ______and sold this computer to a Silicon Valley shop that wanted to buy 100 of them for $500 each.
Apple I
He realized that personal computers (PCs) needed software and then he created his Microsoft.
Bill Gates
How many nanometers are there in one meter?
one billion
The prefix “nano” means ____.
billion
Who first used the word “nanotechnology”?
Norio Taniguchi
In what year did Richard Feynman give his lecture “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” which help inaugurate the study of nanotechnology?
1959
Some research has raised concerns that carbon nanotubes used in products such as high-tech spray paint might share qualities with this carcinogen:
asbestos
What is the size of nanomaterial?
1-100 nanometers
It describes a hypothetical apocalyptic nanotechnology scenario where out-of-control robots eat all the biomass on earth while they propagate.
grey goo
It is a newly emerged and fast growing branch of optics utilizing molecular-size device.
plasmonic
These are photo-emissive particles used in LED-backlit LCDs.
quantum dots
VARIATION OF GENES
GENETIC BIODIVERSITY
