[devere]

“Code breaking and writing a test for machines doesn’t translate to “father of computer science”.”

Alan M. Turing was in fact one of the primary founders of computer science.

The Association for Computing Machinery since 1966 has awarded the A. M. Turing Award:
“ACM’s most prestigious technical award is accompanied by a prize of $250,000. It is given to an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field.”

http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=140

[Nathan Zachary]

I just posted several examples of much earlier and REAL computer science development.

Sorry, the fairy missed the pier.

[Nathan Zachary]

In fact, the UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer) was the first commercially available, "mass produced" electronic computer manufactured by Remington Rand in the USA and was delivered to the US Census Bureau in June 1951. It used 5,200 vacuum tubes and consumed 125 kW of power. 46 machines were sold at more than $1 million each.

The microprocessor eventually led to the development of the microcomputer, small, low-cost computers that individuals and small businesses could afford. By the 1990s, the microcomputer or Personal Computer (PC) became a common household appliance, and became even more widespread with the advent of the Internet.

This is real computer science, way ahead of the gay guys paperwork.

[Nathan Zachary]

Or, you can consider the The Abacus as the first ‘digital’ computer.

[CodeToad]

“Alan M. Turing was in fact one of the primary founders of computer science.

The Association for Computing Machinery since 1966 has awarded the A. M. Turing Award:

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Because someone gives an award in someone else’s name that makes a fact of claim?