who is known as the father of computers ?

Most people will say Charles Babbage, but the real pioneer in practical computing as we know today was Konrad Zuse

Zuse is largely unknown in North America but is a celebrated computer pioneer in his native Germany. Zuse developed functioning program-controlled computing machinery as early as 1936 and went on to form a successful European computer business in the 1950s.

Today, throughout the world, Konrad Zuse is almost unanimously accepted as the inventor and creator of the first freely-programmable computer with a binary floating point and switching/circuit system, which really worked. This machine - called the Z3 - was completed in his small workshop in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1941.

Konrad Zuse first started to consider the logical and technical principles of computers as far back as 1934 when he still was a student. He also created the world's first programming language (1942-1945/46), which he called the Plankalkül.

In the past, scientists and engineers had many discussions about the components of a computer and who can be accepted as the true inventor of the computer. At the International Conference on History of Computing (August 14-18, 1998), there was a panel session in which scientists discussed the question: Who is the inventor of the computer? After a discussion lasting one and a half hours, the great majority denoted Konrad Zuse as the most admired computer pioneer.

2006-09-21 05:37:18 · answer #1 · answered by roshpi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋

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2016-09-30 01:15:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

Charles Babbage usually gets credit for the idea of having a 'stored program' that drives some sort of 'calculating engine'. But there have been several big names involved with the development of the modern computer (Alan Turing, Claude Shannon, John von Neumann, etc.)

There's an excellent collection of papers edited by Brian Randell titled 'The Origins of Digital Computers' (Springer- Verlag, 1975, ISBN 0-387-07114-8) that has a lot of information. It's long out of print, but you can probably find a copy at a University Library or ask your local Librarian to get a loaner copy for you.

Doug

2006-09-21 05:31:23 · answer #3 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋

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who is known as the father of computers ?

2015-08-06 09:07:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

Charles Babbage.

2006-09-21 05:33:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

Charles Babbage.

2006-09-21 05:27:05 · answer #6 · answered by poeticjustice 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋

Charles Babbage, who invented the Diffence Engine and then the Analytical Engine which took information on punch cards;

2006-09-21 05:40:31 · answer #7 · answered by sveltesvet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Seems there are lots of different answers.

The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) was the first electronic digital computing device.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff-Berry_Computer

John Vincent Atanasoff info...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Atanasoff

Clifford Berry info...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_E._Berry

2006-09-21 06:18:12 · answer #8 · answered by tbom_01 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Mary Shelley!

2006-09-22 22:11:08 · answer #9 · answered by Luis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

According to wikipedia it is Alan Turing

2006-09-21 05:30:17 · answer #10 · answered by helene_thygesen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

who is known as the father of computers ?

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