2006-10-04 06:16:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
charles babbage. he first discussed the design of it in 1822, although obviously the first programmable computer had no resemblance to modern computers.
funnily enough he was english too :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage
2006-10-04 06:21:40 · answer #1 · answered by piquet 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, while everyone attributes the first computer as being designed by Charles Babbage, even earlier was Wilhelm Schickard in 1623 with the Calculation Clock (calculator to you and I).
This was not a programmable computer, the design of which was introduced by Babbage, but was not implemented until Konrad Zuse's Z3.
However, the principle upon which modern computers are based was developed by Alan Turing, whose description of a computing machine was coined Turing Machine, a machine which, with an unlimited amount of memory and time, can compute anything.
2006-10-04 13:36:20 · answer #2 · answered by MJPM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually the Abacus was invented by the Babylonians between 500 B.C. and 100 B.C. Other early computing devices include the slide rule, the mechanical calculator, and Dr. Herman Hollerith's Punch Card Tabulating Machine and Sorter. This device was the first electromechanical machine that could read punched cards- special cards with holes punched into them to represent data. In the first successful case of an information processing system replacing a paper-and-pen-based system, Hollerith's machine was used to process the 1890 U.S. Census data and was able to complete the task in two and a half years, instead of the decade it usually took to process the data by hand. Hollerith's company eventually bcame International Business Machines (IBM).
2006-10-05 02:55:14 · answer #3 · answered by rollinhardcarclub 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The First computer Abacus was designed by Mr.Charles Babage.
2006-10-04 13:33:43 · answer #4 · answered by gilberts55 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Computer: a device that takes data and uses a program(a list of instructions) to manipulate that data.
That person was Alan Turing. He was a logician, mathamatition Code breaker etc.
He invented the Turing machine to break the German Enigma Code during WW2.
2006-10-04 18:17:13 · answer #5 · answered by ebred 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were different stages for it. But the basic computer, Abacus was designed by Mr.Charles Babage.
2006-10-04 13:31:02 · answer #6 · answered by cosmoboyin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charles Babbage
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2006-10-04 14:18:52 · answer #7 · answered by sukhdeep 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
leonardo divinci,check the definition of 'computer',
dude made a little cart that would follow a predetermend path.
2006-10-04 13:26:05 · answer #8 · answered by BEAVIS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bill gates? lopl.
2006-10-04 13:33:37 · answer #9 · answered by Zach M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋