Talking about the Past/ Present and Future

Exercises

I) Put the verbs between brackets into the correct tense.

1. Alan Turing developed the concept of the Turing machine (to develop), which is considered as the foundation for modern computation (to be considered).
2. ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ________ in 1945 (to be completed).
3. Nowadays computer scientists ________ quantum computing (to explore), a technology that ________ data processing in the future (to revolutionize).
4. Grace Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist, ________ the first compiler in the 1950s (to invent).
5. The World Wide Web ________ by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 (to invent), and it ________ the way we access information (to transform).
6. By the end of this decade, experts predict that artificial intelligence ________ human intelligence in certain tasks (to surpass).
7. Charles Babbage, often called the "father of the computer," ________ the Analytical Engine in the 1830s (to envision).
8. Today, programmers ________ high-level languages (to use) that ________ coding more accessible (to make).
9. In the 1960s, Douglas Engelbart ________ the computer mouse (to introduce), a device that ________ human-computer interaction (to revolutionize).
10. By the time you complete your computer science degree, new technologies ________ (to emerge).
11. Before the 1970s, the idea of personal computers ________ widespread acceptance (to gain).
12. The concept of cloud computing ________ until the late 20th century (to emerge).
13. Over the last few years, programmers ________ increasingly sophisticated algorithms for machine learning (to develop).
14. Before the widespread use of graphical interfaces, computer users ________ systems primarily through command lines (to navigate).
15. Computer scientists continuously ________ the boundaries of knowledge (to push), driving technological progress.

II) Similar exercise, be careful, read the whole text before starting to fill in your answers…

Dear Jason,