Who is the Father of Computer?

Who is the Father of Computer?

This question is little bit old fashioned because in this new technology era most of the things are created by a group of people or by people who are not related and comes from different background and someone build a product based on the collective knowledge of these people's work.

Today, We live in a world where almost every thing on out day yo day life involves computer and its processing power. And most of us wonder at sometime, who started all these? Who is the father of computers. Answer is: Charles Babbage is the Father of Computer. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was an extraordinarily talented scientist, mathematician, economist and engineer. Babbage, who was born in London in 1791, was a great mathematical genius. Although in his era there were no semi conductors, even world began to see computer after 50 years of his lifetime in 1940s. Charles invented Analytical Engine which contained an ALU (arithmetic logic unit), basic flow control, and integrated memory. It is considered as the first general-purpose computer concept.

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Modern Computers

World began to see first electric computers from 1940s during world war 2. But these computers were so bulky and large that they almost cover a full big room, seems strange, isn't? It was 1970s when personal computers started showing up. Henry Edward Roberts is considered the father of Personal Computer, he is the one who coined the term "personal computer". He released the Altair 8800 in 1974. Bill Gates took inspiration from this machine after seeing an ad of this in Popular Electronics magzine in 1975 and started creating BASIC programming language software for it.