who was the founder of computer?
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Mr. C. Omp Uter...Duh!
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Lots of stuff:\n\nColossus, the world's first totally electronic and digital computer was built\n\nFirst supersonic flight by Chuck Yeager on October 14, 1947\n\nENIAC invented (another computer)\n\nQuantum electrodynamics developed by Feynman, Dyson, Schwinger, and Tomonaga\n\nMathematics: cybernetics, game theory, cryptology were devised\n\nWorld War II ended in 1945\n\nUnited Nations established in 1945\n\nNATO founded in 1949\n\nThe Chinese Civil War ended\n\nThe Marshall Plan was implemented by the United States, giving billions of dollars in aid to reconstruct the war-devastated economies of Europe\n\nInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) was formed (debatable whether that's a good thing :>)\n\nWorld Bank was formed (same again)\n\nFrank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" was released (great movie)\n\nThe NBA was formed\n\nRock and roll and Rhythm and blues emerged, thus forming the genesis of all modern 'popular' music
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Bill Gates.\n\nWilliam Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is the co-founder, chairman, and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the world's largest computer software company. According to Forbes magazine, Gates is the world's wealthiest person, with a net worth of approximately US$51 billion, as of September 2005)\n\nRead more at \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_gates\n\nGates has been number one on the "Forbes 400" list through 1993-2005 and number one on Forbes list of "The World's Richest People" in 1996-2005, except for 1997 when the Sultan of Brunei was included despite Forbes' usual policy of excluding heads of state.\n\nThe collective net worth of the world's 691 billionaires is $2.2 trillion, up $300 billion from the combined net worths of the 587 people listed last year. \n\nRead about the richets people of the world at \nhttp://www.forbes.com/2005/03/09/bill05land.html\n\nGet all interesting lists at \nhttp://www.forbes.com/lists/
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I would say Tim Berners Lee, who basically invented the World Wide Web.  He also created the first web browser and currently directs the World Wide Web Consortium.
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It was not 'discovered'. Bill Gates went to school, and they had some huge computers there. The students messed with them, and programmed with punchcards. Bill excelled in it, and everyone asked him questions about it. He got hired to make a traffic counting machine with a friend. The friend died, and Bill picked up the project with Paul Allen. They did other things, and eventually created the DOS operating system and sold it to IBM. They later created Microsoft, and bought back the rights for their DOS and started distibuting DOS to everyone. DOS grew over time, and GUIs were formed, and Microsoft became a giant.
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Unfortunately, I believe the answer goes to Bill Gates.  Not only is he super smart when it comes to computers, etc, he's also a savey business person.
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This has to be really useful:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer\n\n(10 points 4 me? ;)  )
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Hello..Anyone from thr pals above are right about it. The PERSON WHO INVENTED COMPUTER FOR THE FIRST TIME . IT IS JOHN ATANASSOV. HE DIED ONLY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO IN USA AND I HAVE THE PLEASURE TO KNOW ONE OF HIS GRANDCHILDREN!!
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The first computer program ever was a set of instructions punched into cards. \n\nThis kind of programming was used by Charles Babbage on his difference engines. The first reported program was written, or rather punched, by Babbages co-worker Ada Lovelace.\n\nThe first computers in the modern sense were constructed more than a century later by Konrad Zuse. They received their instructions by manually entering the first couple of bytes to initialize the processor and determine which hard-wired operations to perform.\n\nThese instructions were very basic boolean arithmetics - comparison of values, etc.
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computer history timeline up until 1985:\nComputer History \nYear/Enter Computer History \nInventors/Inventions Computer History \nDescription of Event \n1936 Konrad Zuse - Z1 Computer First freely programmable computer. \n1942 John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry \nABC Computer Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC. \n1944 Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper \nHarvard Mark I Computer The Harvard Mark 1 computer. \n1946 John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly \nENIAC 1 Computer 20,000 vacuum tubes later... \n1948 Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn \nManchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories. \n1947/48 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley \nThe Transistor No, a transistor is not a computer, but this invention greatly affected the history of computers.  \n1951 John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly \nUNIVAC Computer First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners. \n1953 International Business Machines \nIBM 701 EDPM Computer IBM enters into 'The History of Computers'. \n1954 John Backus & IBM  \nFORTRAN Computer Programming Language The first successful high level programming language. \n1955\n(In Use 1959) \n Stanford Research Institute, Bank of America,  and General Electric\nERMA and MICR The first bank industry computer - also MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) for reading checks. \n1958 Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce \nThe Integrated Circuit Otherwise known as 'The Chip' \n1962 Steve Russell & MIT \nSpacewar Computer Game The first computer game invented. \n1964 Douglas Engelbart \nComputer Mouse & Windows Nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end. \n1969 ARPAnet The original Internet. \n1970 Intel 1103 Computer Memory The world's first available dynamic RAM chip. \n1971 Faggin, Hoff & Mazor \nIntel 4004 Computer Microprocessor The first microprocessor. \n1971 Alan Shugart &IBM \nThe "Floppy" Disk Nicknamed the "Floppy" for its flexibility. \n1973 Robert Metcalfe & Xerox \nThe Ethernet Computer Networking Networking. \n1974/75 Scelbi  & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers The first consumer computers. \n1976/77 Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet Computers More first consumer computers. \n1978 Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston \nVisiCalc Spreadsheet Software Any product that pays for itself in two weeks is a surefire winner. \n1979 Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby \nWordStar Software Word Processors. \n1981 IBM \nThe IBM PC - Home Computer From an "Acorn" grows a personal computer revolution \n1981 Microsoft \nMS-DOS Computer Operating System From "Quick And Dirty" comes the operating system of the century. \n1983 Apple Lisa Computer The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface. \n1984 Apple Macintosh Computer The more affordable home computer with a GUI. \n1985 Microsoft Windows Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.
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Babbage's machine was really a difference engine.\nThe fist electronic computer was build in Britain by the Post Office Research Branch in 1943.
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hello.obviously the answer from any keyboard would be albert einstein.we hav many instances to name as why he is prodigious in math and physical calclations...
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Still Bill Gates\nhttp://www.forbes.com/2004/02/25/bill04land.html\n\nAnd, no, he didn't invent the computer.
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Alan Turing is generally credited with creating the first "conceptual computer"  A Turing Machine was said to be a universal computing machine (i.e. A machine that could perform any analytical function without limit to its scope) as long as certain conditions were met.\n\nThe turing machine could be a black box with an infinite roll of tape.  The machine could only interact with the tape in one of five ways.  It could read the tape, roll the tape left, roll the tape right, write a '1' to the tape, or write a '0' to the tape.  From these five commands, it could be possible to perform anything.\n\nOriginally programs were hard-coded into the machine, or used physical relays (which is why computers took up rooms the size of gymnasiums) and later vacuum tubes.\n\nInitially computers were very expensive experiments and their use was limited to researchers.  The programming languages of these machines were tedious and difficult to implement.  Many times they were written on punch cards, with each command "punched out" from a line on the card.\n\nAPL was a common programming language in use until the 1980's that allowed the programmer to write entire programs in a single line of code!\n\nAround 1970, the C Programming Language was developed, along with the UNIX operating system.  For the first time, computers were not being jealously guarded and programmers were allowed free access to the systems.  C was the first programming language developed by programmers, for programmers.  It's still in use today in modern programs.\n\nBy 1980, computers had become increasingly powerful as well as their software and the need for an improvement to the C programming language was evident.  This was realized by Bjorn Stroustrup with C++ (in the C language a ++ means to increment a variable, hence it was the 'next' version of C) which allowed larger and more complex programs to become more object-oriented.\n\nWith the advent of the internet, computers became connected to one another like never before.  The need for cross-platform programming became evident.  Java came to the forefront at this time, as a fast, stable, powerful, cross-platform language.\n\nAs dynamic content advanced on the internet, languages came about to specifically address these needs.  Scripting languages which performed light to medium tasks became popular because of their flexibility and reduced development cycle.
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Bill Gates.\n\nNo question about it. Fully documented.
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Bill Gates. His 'empire' is completely devoid of original thinking but they dont hide that they arent creative. They've stolen, bought over and assimilated all features from other OS's and programs in years past... BUT nonetheless, they've dominated. Excelled in all manner of business. Similiar to Steve Jobs but without the extreme eccentricity and non-conformist manner of appealing to the masses. Dell might be the new compaq, shortly. Cheap, barebones performance computers that are loaded down with crippled operating systems and proprietary software.. people dont stay clueless forever, but nonetheless they've become #1 by capitalizing on people's need to have what they believe is the best.. but yet dont know what they're doing.\n\nJeff the Amazon and Pierre of the 'bay.. innovators. Admirable, but not my choice as all-consuming and powerful entrepreneur of all-time. :)
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ABACUS - the first computing device ever known to humans\n\n1943 AD to 1946 AD The first general-purpose electronic computer -- ENIAC\n\n1944 AD to 1952 AD The first stored program computer -- EDVAC\n\n1936 Konrad Zuse - Z1 Computer First freely programmable computer. \n1942 John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry \nABC Computer Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC. \n1944 Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper \nHarvard Mark I Computer The Harvard Mark 1 computer. \n1946 John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly \nENIAC 1 Computer 20,000 vacuum tubes later... \n\n\n\nSee the source for more info