who invented the computer?
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God invented it with logical expression: IF you obey, THEN I will be your God and you will be My people, ELSE I will bring fire and brimstone.\n\nJohnny
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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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The first true computer was invented in 1945, well up and running at the end of WWII and took up an entire room. The internet was inveted in 1966 by the US Army and emails were used then in one form or another called an AUTOVON line, phones are still used that way on military bases by the US worldwide.
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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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This has to be really useful:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer\n\n(10 points 4 me? ;)  )
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The first electronic calculation device using binary logic was built by Konrad Zuse in 1938. Check out the first link below.\n\nCharles Babbage built or at least conceived the first mechanical difference engines that could sort punch cards and even be programmed by punchcards.
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search on www.computerhistory.org\nhttp://www.hitmill.com/computers/compute...\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/blcoi...\n\nplease use the above links . i think they might me useful for ur research
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Computer\nCompute + -er\nOne who computes (calculates). The word computer predates modern computers.
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Alexander Graham Bell.\nHe introduced us to advanced communications. telecommunication, communication in general (via phone, computer, or video) is probably the biggest and most influential invention of all time.  It dictates our whole world in every aspect of our lives.   Where would we be without cell phones or email and all that encompasses those!
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"The first of the "modern" computers was invented during World War II, in 1941 by a German engineer named Konrad Zuse. The computer was called the Z3 and was used to help design German airplanes and missles."
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He invented the sandwich...\n:)
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i suppose it depends on what you are looking for as a definition of computer.\n\nYou could say the abacus.\nOr if you're looking for something programmable then in 1801 Joseph Jacquard developed a weaving loom whose weaving process was based on holes punched in a card.\nHerman Hollerith used a hole punch card to speed up census tabulation for the 1890 US census - which led to the creation of IBM\n\nBut these wer all based on inventions that used gears to represent data invented by Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)  Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) and Charles Babbage (1792-1871)\n\nAugusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace is accredited as being the first programmer in regards to charles babbage's analytical engine during the mid to late 1830's.\n\nHope this information helps
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Charles Babbage -Father of computer.\nAugustus Ada King- Mother of programming
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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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How exactly do you discover a computer? I was under the impression that all computers were built by human beings. I would really like to discover computers as well.
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Charles Babbage, It was his initiative of the differential engine which led to the evolution of computer. For this reason, he's considered the father of computing.
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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.