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Ask HN: Father of the Computer – Charles Babbage or Alan Turing?
My impression is that Charles Babbage is at best the father of the calculator. It was Alan Turing who deserves the full credit of the state of computing today.
- jonny_storm 10y agoPick up a copy of George Dyson's Turing's Cathedral, and you may be left wondering whether this notion even makes sense. Before even Babbage, Leibniz was obsessed with developing a notation for a universal language that could be used to program a mechanical structure using marbles.
- Tomte 10y agoZuse?
- gigatexal 10y agoTuring takes my vote.
- ankurdhama 10y agoEvery giant stands on the shoulder of other giants. Basically, the idea of "Father of so and so" doesn't make any sense.