Graphical User Interfaces

What was Apple's Macintosh credited for in 1984?

• a command line interface
• advanced word processing
• a graphical user interface

• high-resolution graphics

Prior to GUIs, users interacted with computers through ___

• touch screens
• voice commands
• command line interfaces
• point and click

Who is recognized as the forefather of modern GUIs?

• Alan Turing
• Douglas Engelbert
• Bill Gates
• Ivan Sutherland

Engelbert was inspired by an article on the ___

• Mainframe
• Memex
• CPU
• Internet

What did Douglas Engelbert create in 1964?

• a keyboard
• a computer mouse
• a trackpad
• a touchscreen

What was Engelbert's 1968 demo referred to as?

• Future of Computing
• The mother of all demos
• Computing Revolution
• Demo Days

Where did many of Engelbert's team move to in the 1970s?

• IBM Labs
• Xerox Parc
• Microsoft Research
• Googleplex

What was the Xerox Alto's interface inspired by?

• Tree metaphor
• Cloud computing
• Desktop metaphor
• File cabinet

What is a GUI that uses windows, icons, menus, and a pointer called?

• PWIM interface
• WINP interface
• MIPW interface
• WIMP interface

GUIs use a programming type known as ___.

• linear programming
• functional programming
• object-oriented programming
• event-driven programming