who invented computers?
From early mechanical calculators to the architecture that powers today’s machines, these pioneers laid the foundations of computing: Blaise Pascal, Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, and John von Neumann.
Blaise Pascal
To help his father, a tax official, Pascal invented the Pascaline, the world’s first mechanical calculator using gears. He built it in 1642 — at just 19 years old.
Charles Babbage
A 19th-century British mathematician who designed the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine, Babbage is often called the “father of the computer.” Though never completed in his lifetime, his designs outlined the prototype of modern computer structure.
Alan Mathison Turing
A British mathematician and computer scientist, Turing proposed the concept of the Turing machine, laying the theoretical foundations of modern computer science and pointing the way for early artificial intelligence research.
John von Neumann
Von Neumann proposed the stored-program architecture — keeping programs and data in the same memory — now known as the “von Neumann architecture.” Most of today’s computers are designed on this model. (He was, simply put, a genius.)
That’s today’s bit of general knowledge — thank you!
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