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DEC advertises that it helped to create “the world’s first expert system routinely used in an industrial environment,” called XCON or……
a) PDP-11                             
b) Rl                      
c) VAX                                  
d) MAGNOM

b

Prior to the invention of time-sharing, the prevalent method of computer access was
a) batch processing
b) telecommunication
c) remote access
d) all of the mentioned

a

Seymour Papert of the MIT AI lab created a programming environment for children called
a) BASIC                             
b) LOGO
c) MYCIN                            
d) FORTRAN

b

Which of the following is a project of the Strategic Computing Program?
a) 
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
b) National Science Foundation
c) Jet Propulsion Laboratory
d) All of these

a

The original LISP machines produced by both LMI and Symbolics were based on research performed at?
a) CMU
b) MIT  
c) RAMD

b

In LISP, the addition 3 + 2 is entered as
a) 3 + 2                                 
b) 3 add 2
c) 3 + 2 =                              
d) (+ 3 2)

d