Computing Atlas

How Computing Was Built
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Scored quizzes drawn from the atlas. Pick a topic, a difficulty and a length, and see where you stand.

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Firsts and Founders: The Computing Quiz
5 questions
Five questions from the atlas's own research: the computer a court had to name, the algorithm from a Moscow classroom, the machine that ran the first stored program, and the secret double birth of public key cryptography.
Semiconductors and the Physical Layer of Computing
3 questions
From the 1947 transistor to Moore's law to quantum bits: what the atlas own newest pages establish about the hardware underneath every computation.