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10 free faces
Minds Behind Tech
Recognize the minds shaping our future.
The inventors and founders behind the devices and ideas you use every day — from the first computer program to the personal computer revolution.
Foundations of Computing
10 reviewed people · Learn, Recognize, and Recall · Free
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100 people with open-licensed portraits · 10 random faces per round
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What you'll practice
Practice connecting the faces of people behind computing and technology with their names. Begin with choices, check the answer, and return later to try recalling a name without choices.
- Learn
- Meet faces with clearer name choices and check the answer.
- Recognize
- Choose the name among more similar alternatives.
- Recall
- Sign in to type a name from memory. Delayed independent recall is separate from multiple-choice success.
Available free samples need no account. After a round, revisit missed faces or return for a personal memory workout. Quiz practice does not guarantee real-world name recall.
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