Who is the father of computer?

Question

Who is the father of computer?

Answer 1

Charles Babbage is considered to be the father of the computer

Answer 2

Alan Turing, a 20th century mathematician, is largely regarded as the father of the modern computer. His experiments are credited with helping Britain win World War II by deciphering encrypted German communications, helping the Allies remain one step ahead. He also was one of the first to raise the concept of artificial intelligence in a paper published in 1969.

But he was not the first to come up with the concept of a computer, recently researchers have discovered an ancient Greek computer, an astronomical calculator, which dates back to around 100 B.C.

Answer 3

I doubt there's only one person who invented the computer.

Answer 4

steve jobs

Answer 5

oh you mean the guy that had s*x with my computer's mother to make my computer? Hmmmmmmmm i'm not sure. Both the mother and father of my computer abandoned the poor thing and now it's stuck with me.

Answer 6

man brain

Answer 7

charles cabbage

Answer 8

nobody

Answer 9

charles babbage is recognized as " the Father of computer". in 1863 he developed Analytical Engine in england at "Charle Babbage Insitutue at Minnesota". After that he was recognised as father of computer

Answer 10

DO YOU MEAN A MAN---Charles Babbage.

OR FIRST COMPUTER IS ENIAK

Answer 11

Blaise Pascal

Answer 12

Charles Babbage.

Answer 13

ok  this is sort of a computer history

1 computers were people

then came the abacus -(Its only value is that it aids the memory of the human performing the calculation)

In 1617 John Napier invented logarithms(which are a technology that allows multiplication to be performed via addition)

Wilhelm Schickard in 1623 germany (he first gear-driven calculating machine to actually be built was probably the calculating clock)

England in 1632  slide ruler

In 1642 Blaise Pascal (invented the Pascaline as an aid for his father who was a tax collector) it could only add

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (managed to build a four-function (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) calculator that he called the stepped reckoner because, instead of gears, it employed fluted drums having ten flutes arranged around their circumference in a stair-step fashion)

In 1801 the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a power loom that could base its weave (and hence the design on the fabric) upon a pattern automatically read from punched wooden cards, held together in a long row by rope. Descendents of these punched cards have been in use ever since (remember the "hanging chad" from the Florida presidential ballots of the year 2000?)

By 1822 the English mathematician Charles Babbage was proposing a steam driven calculating machine the size of a room, which he called the Difference Engine. This machine would be able to compute tables of numbers, such as logarithm tables. He obtained government funding for this project due to the importance of numeric tables in ocean navigation. By promoting their commercial and military navies, the British government had managed to become the earth's greatest empire. But in that time frame the British government was publishing a seven volume set of navigation tables which came with a companion volume of corrections which showed that the set had over 1000 numerical errors. It was hoped that Babbage's machine could eliminate errors in these types of tables. But construction of Babbage's Difference Engine proved exceedingly difficult and the project soon became the most expensive government funded project up to that point in English history

Hollerith's invention, known as the Hollerith desk, consisted of a card reader which sensed the holes in the cards, a gear driven mechanism which could count (using Pascal's mechanism which we still see in car odometers), and a large wall of dial indicators (a car speedometer is a dial indicator) to display the results of the count.

Hollerith built a company, the Tabulating Machine Company which, after a few buyouts, eventually became International Business Machines, known today as IBM.

Harvard Mark I computer which was built as a partnership between Harvard and IBM in 1944. This was the first programmable digital computer made in the U.S.

the principal designer of the Mark I, Howard Aiken of Harvard

Charles Babbage was the father of the modern day computer

Answer 14

simple...the one who slept with the mother of computer...

Answer 15

Abacus

Answer 16

Me

Answer 17

not me

Answer 18

an english man called alan turing

Answer 19

Alan Turing would be best described as the father of modern computing, it was he who first showed that any problem could be solved by breaking it into discrete logical steps which could be carried out by a computer.

Babbage attempted to build the first (mechanical) difference engine, as it was called, but I think most computer scientists would agree that Turings legacy was the most worthy.

Answer 20

Wilhelm Schickard also Alan Turing: Father of the computer

Answer 21

darth vader

Answer 22

Mesopotamian abacus invented 1st computer thousands of years ago

called Abacus

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Answer 23

that's in dispute

Charles Babbage or Alan Turing

You decide.