the inventer of the computer?
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That depends on what you mean by "computer".  The basis of any computing machine is the ability to do input, processing and output.  The core of what makes it a computer is to handle "whatif" questions and to respond differently based on the answer to those questions.  For example, to say, "If the dollar amount is less than X then do this, but if it's greater than X then do that.\n\nBy that definition, the first true computer would probably be Charles Babbage's "Difference Engine" built in the late 1800s.  An improved version, which he called the "Analytical Engine" actually accepted punch card programs, the first of which was written by Lord Byron's daughter, Ada Lovelace, making her the world's first computer programmer.\n\nThe first truly modern electronic computer was, arguably, the ENIAC developed for the US Army by the University of Pennsylvania.  I say "arguably" because it depends on which features you want to include in the definition of "modern electronic computer."  For example, the ENIAC had no stored memory and had to be rewired for each program.\n\nHope this helps.
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Bill gates invented computers!
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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 latest issue of popular mechanics has an article devoted just to this topic.  John Koza is the inventor.\n\nif i recall, the machine reinvented several patents from scratch, invented a complex lens system, as well as differnet kinds of circuits.  \n\nNASA has recently bought a revolutionary antennae that the computer created.\n\ninventions that were reinvented were:\n\n"Jones swiftly rotates through several other recent inventions, all generated using the same technique as the lens system. There are logic circuits and amplifiers and filters, some of them suitable for the challenging low-power requirements of cellphones and laptops. Each took between one day and one month to evolve, generating an electricity bill of more than $3,000 a month."
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the computer becomes enlightened
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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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Actually a man named Ray Kurzweil (something of a big name in these circles) has been writing about this very topic for the past twenty years. Kurzweil is a researcher, inventor, and developer of computer electronics as well as the recipient of a couple presidential awards. Furthermore he is a published author of numerous books and articles regarding technology and human interactions with technology. \n\nOne of the things that he points out is that computers are becoming more and more sophisticated and capable of carrying out more and more computations at faster and faster rates with the passing of each year. That’s not to say that your machine is doing this, but that we’re creating computers that are faster and able to hold more information constantly. As a result we’re rapidly approaching a time when computers are going to be as capable of processing information as the human brain. According to some of his predictions we should be first seeing these advanced machines within the next ten to fifteen years. And with market demands in the US being what they are, the price on these machines will have a tendency to steadily decrease as the technology for making these computers becomes cheaper and more readily available. As a result we as a public may end up owning one of these smarter computers within the next twenty years. \n\nThere are two additional points that he makes though: It will also be likely that research into increasing computer speeds as well as processing, memory storage and retrieval probably wont stop at the point of having a computer that’s as ‘intelligent’ as the human mind. Also, with the aforementioned decline in prices in creating these smarter computers and technology making the production of these machines easier, we may find these computers cropping up in smaller and smaller packages and in more and more things. As a result, we could possibly find ourselves surrounded with this technology quite easily. \n\nI’m not trying to paint a Matrix looking future, but it is possible that we may find ourselves outnumbered by our machines, so we had better have a good idea of what we’re doing when we create them.
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Charles Babbage helped us along in several ways.  As a pioneer in the path to computers he helped us with an adding machine that was quite miraculous.  His difference engine was used to help compute mathematical tables which were used in multiple places.  His efforts were essential to the path to the modern digital computer.\n\nMore directly, stores used to use mechanical adding machines to ring up groceries or hardware when I was a child.  The were crude compared to what we have today, but they did help a cashier effectively add a customer's order up.
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our brain is indeed greater than the computer and yet we cannot remember all the things a computer does, and that is because we are humans but bear in mind that humans are the ones invented the computer and it also takes humans to operate the computer... without the human's brain.. who invented electricity, how will the computer function... furthermore... there are times when a computer overload and can no longer function but human brains can take a whole lifetime of learnings... so tell me, do you think the computer is greater than our own brains... i am grateful God gave me a brain to operate my computer and now i am here to answer your question... cheers
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NEXT computer was Steve Jobs' brainchild.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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Charles Babbage -Father of computer.\nAugustus Ada King- Mother of programming
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Blaise Pascal? He invented the calculator. Maybe Isaac Newton, the inventor of calculus, or Charles Babbage, the inventor of the computer. Perhaps John Napier, who discovered how to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and even extract square roots simply by moving pieces on a chessboard? Tell you what, pick René Descartes, he's the inventor of coordinate geometry. These are all excellent choices!
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Somone who knows alot about computers and how they work
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Al Gore. Oh no, wait, that was the internet that he invented. Never mind. Sorry.
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No one person invented the Internet as we know it today. However, certain major figures contributed major breakthroughs: \nLeonard Kleinrock, J.C.R. Licklider, Larry G. Roberts, Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf , Radia Perlman
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I  INTRODUCTION \nComputer, machine that performs tasks, such as calculations or electronic communication, under the control of a set of instructions called a program. Programs usually reside within the computer and are retrieved and processed by the computer’s electronics. The program results are stored or routed to output devices, such as video display monitors or printers. Computers perform a wide variety of activities reliably, accurately, and quickly.\n\nHISTORY\nA. Beginnings\nThe history of computing began with an analog machine. In 1623 German scientist Wilhelm Schikard invented a machine that used 11 complete and 6 incomplete sprocketed wheels that could add, and with the aid of logarithm tables, multiply and divide.\n\nFrench philosopher, mathematician, and physicist Blaise Pascal invented a machine in 1642 that added and subtracted, automatically carrying and borrowing digits from column to column. Pascal built 50 copies of his machine, but most served as curiosities in parlors of the wealthy. Seventeenth-century German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz designed a special gearing system to enable multiplication on Pascal’s machine.\n\nB  First Punch Cards \nIn the early 19th century French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard devised a specialized type of computer: a silk loom. Jacquard’s loom used punched cards to program patterns that helped the loom create woven fabrics. Although Jacquard was rewarded and admired by French emperor Napoleon I for his work, he fled for his life from the city of Lyon pursued by weavers who feared their jobs were in jeopardy due to Jacquard’s invention. The loom prevailed, however: When Jacquard died, more than 30,000 of his looms existed in Lyon. The looms are still used today, especially in the manufacture of fine furniture fabrics.\n\nC  Precursor to Modern Computer \nAnother early mechanical computer was the Difference Engine, designed in the early 1820s by British mathematician and scientist Charles Babbage. Although never completed by Babbage, the Difference Engine was intended to be a machine with a 20-decimal capacity that could solve mathematical problems. Babbage also made plans for another machine, the Analytical Engine, considered the mechanical precursor of the modern computer. The Analytical Engine was designed to perform all arithmetic operations efficiently; however, Babbage’s lack of political skills kept him from obtaining the approval and funds to build it. \n\nAugusta Ada Byron, countess of Lovelace, was a personal friend and student of Babbage. She was the daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron and one of only a few woman mathematicians of her time. She prepared extensive notes concerning Babbage’s ideas and the Analytical Engine. Lovelace’s conceptual programs for the machine led to the naming of a programming language (Ada) in her honor. Although the Analytical Engine was never built, its key concepts, such as the capacity to store instructions, the use of punched cards as a primitive memory, and the ability to print, can be found in many modern computers.\n\nXII  DEVELOPMENTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY \n\nA  Early Electronic Calculators \n\nHerman Hollerith, an American inventor, used an idea similar to Jacquard’s loom when he combined the use of punched cards with devices that created and electronically read the cards. Hollerith’s tabulator was used for the 1890 U.S. census, and it made the computational time three to four times shorter than the time previously needed for hand counts. Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine Company eventually merged with two companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. In 1924 the company changed its name to International Business Machines (IBM).\n\nIn 1936 British mathematician Alan Turing proposed the idea of a machine that could process equations without human direction. The machine (now known as a Turing machine) resembled an automatic typewriter that used symbols for math and logic instead of letters. Turin