COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Charles Babbage
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Howard Aiken
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Charles Xavier Thomas
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Augusta Ada Lovelace
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lady Ada suggested using binary numbers instead of decimal number in Analytical Engine. Lady Ada also wrote a program to be used in Analytical Engine. She is also known as the “First Programmer"in the history of computer science because this was the first program ever written.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and daughter of the poet Lord Byron, wrote the first algorithm for a machine in the 1800s and is considered the first computer programmer.
Detailed explanation-3: -About a century before Konrad Zuse designed the first programmable computing machine, in the 1840s, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer programme in the world. From a modern perspective, her work is visionary. In her lifetime, her scientific contributions hardly attracted any attention.