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I've always understood "Father of <some industry>" to be fluid, and usually there's more than one possible figure. Turing, or Babbage, or Shannon, etc could al
by fouc 5y ago
I've always understood "Father of <some industry>" to be fluid, and usually there's more than one possible figure. Turing, or Babbage, or Shannon, etc could all be called that. One organization thinks Turing is the father. So?
Who really cares?
- ahartmetz 5y agoAlso Konrad Zuse, frequently ignored in the anglosphere. He is one of ~two people with a credible claim to building the first freely programmable (Turing-complete) computer. His first few computers were mechanical, later models electrical.
- Oarch 5y agoGoing back even further, I'd argue Gottfried Leibnitz was one of the first to grasp the fundamental problems of building a computer.