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The first human computer
The word "computer" was first used in the book "The yong mans gleanings" by the English writer Richard Braithwait to describe the best Arithmetician; a person who carried calculations or computations. -
Blaise Pascal
Invented a mechanical calculator known as Pascal's Calculator. -
Joseph Marie Macquard
Improved the textile loom by introducing punch paper cards to automate the machine. -
Father Of The Computer
Charles Babbage was the first person to design a fully programmable mechanical computer. -
The First Computer Programmer
Ada Lovelace is considered to be the first computer programmer. She created the first algorithm which was intended to be processed by a machine making her the first programmer. Her name has been credited in the programming language Ada. -
Thomas de Colmar
Invented the Arithmometer. -
Henry Babbage
He redisgned and improved his father's invention and which was able to able to calculate the first 40 multiples of Pi pricely with 29 decimal places. -
Herman Hollerith
Inventor of the mechanical tabulator based on punch cards which provide data for the machine. He was the founder of the Tabulating Machine Company which later merged and became IBM. -
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo
Reconstructed Henry Babbage's design of the Mill using electromechanical devices. -
Alan Turing
Is considered to be the father of computer science provide the blueprints of for the electronic digital computer. -
First functional computer
The Z1 built by Germany's Konrad Zuse is considered to be the first modern computer. -
Howard Aiken
Constructed the first programmable calculator for the IMB company named ASCC/Mark I. -
Von Neuman
As a mathematician and a scientist, he designed a computer architecture for the EDVAC which is later adopted by daily modern computers.
