who invented software?
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I would credit Jaquard and Hollerith way way back in the 1800s for creating data cards which controlled machines.  The loom used punched holes to configure the weaving process, and Hollerith (according to the website) developed punchcards for data collection and counting purposes.  The data configured on cards was the first "software."
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Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is sometimes known as the Father of Computing and his Analytical Engine (designed in 1833-34) and Difference Engine (desigined in 1822) are widely believed to be the forerunners of computational machines and computers.\n\nUp until then, the word 'computer' existed but it meant a person who performed computations and calculations.
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Barnicles is awesome, but yeah who invented it, good question, never thought of that before...\n\nWho's Imao Christa?
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Charles Babbage -Father of computer.\nAugustus Ada King- Mother of programming
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Benjamin Franklin but a lot of scientists contributed in the discovery. It all started 600 BC with the greeks followed by Dr William Gilbert,Benjamin Franklin,Galvani and Volta,Michael Faraday,Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan,George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla,James Watt and finally Andre Ampere and George Ohm
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Aryabhatta.... he invented "0"... without which we would not know maths or physics as it is today... and oh yeah... the computers would not be there without the 0s and 1s.
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Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, scientist, and theologian who lived between 1623-1662. In 1645, Pascal invented the first digital calculating machine, making him one of the founding fathers of microcomputer technology. In 1646, he invented the syringe and hydraulic press. \n\nIn 1648, Pascal proved that the level of mercury in a barometer is determined by a change in atmospheric pressure. This led to new insights in the studies of meteorology and fluid dynamics. It also led to Pascal's law, which states that fluids transmit pressure equally in all directions. \n\nThe International Standard (SI) unit for pressure was named after Pascal. Pascal is also honored in having one of the first computer programming languages named after him. \n\nPascal died at 39 years of age from stomach and brain cancer. One of his theological writings, Pensees (Thoughts) is still famous throughout the world.
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Charles Babbage is known as the father of modern computer science.
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Charles Babbage is credited as the inventor of the first computer due to the invention of his difference engine machine in 1840.
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Bjarne Stroustup "Design and Evolution of C++" and others by him, the inventor of C++
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Alan Curtis Kay is considered as the Father of Personal Computing.\n\nFor more info: http://www.sdsuniverse.info/story.asp?id=27397
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Charles Babbage invented the computing machine..\n\nIts was series is research done to get the current form of computers
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Before Bill Gates there was no industry of IT. He basically single handedly created the software industry. He is a genius like no other and he still is in quest to find that perfect OS which would make computers more efficient and user friendly.
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According to the bible, it was God.\nAccording to Darwin, it was natural evolution.\nMany others will convince you that it was Steve Jobs and Apple.\n\nThe answer, according to http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/features/mouse/mouse.html, is Doug Engelbart.\n\n(which I found via this Yahoo! Search http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/search?p=who+invented+the+mouse.)
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Humans invented computers. So humans are best
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Cat is invented by the one who invented us... So Now the big question is "Tricksy tricksy, if not completely stupid...? who invented us?"
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John Henry Google.  He and Al Gore invented the internet and then he went on to invent search engines and toasters.