The correct answer is Charles Babbage.
- Charles Babbage is considered to be the ‘Father of Modern Digital Computer’.
Key Points
- Digital computer, any of a class of devices capable of solving problems by processing information in discrete form.
- It operates on data, including magnitudes, letters, and symbols, that are expressed in binary code—i.e., using only the two digits 0 and 1.
- Examples of digital electronic computers include the IBM PC, the Apple Macintosh as well as modern smartphones.
- Today computers are being used almost everywhere like schools, colleges, hospitals, offices, railway stations, hotels, etc.
- A computer system is multitasking so that you can do two tasks very easily at the same time.
Additional Information
- Storage Capacity of Computer
- Computer systems have a very large capacity to store any type of data.
- A computer can store and resell any information due to its storage capacity.
- Computers have the ability to store all types of data such as data, pictures, files, programs, games, and sound for many years and later we can get any data in a few seconds at any time for taking that information and for future retrieval.
- Reliability of Computer
- Reliability is a very big characteristic of computers.
- Today almost all the big industries or big e-Commerce companies like Amazon and Flipkart, and big search engine companies like - Google and Bing, all these companies are dependent on computers.
- Today every major industry and company in the world has full confidence in their computers, and their entire business is running from computers.
- Diligence of Computer
- A person gets tired of doing some work in a few hours and a computer has the ability to do any work continuously for many hours, days, months.
- Even after the computer has worked for such a long time, there is no decrease in its ability to work and its accuracy.
- The computer does work without any discrimination.
- A computer is free from monotony and tiredness.
- Accuracy of Computer
- A computer is very accurate.
- It does not make any kind of mistake in calculating.
- Sometimes we get some errors but these are because of the mistake performed by us.
- The Accuracy of the computer is constantly high and it can perform hundreds of operations with the carry-out calculation and analysis accurately and speedily.
- A computer is very accurate.
