[Nathan Zachary]

The point is, functioning digital computers were already in development BEFORE this guy wrote anything, so the claim that he is any sort of "father of computer science" is bogus.

It obviously took years before the ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, constructed in the US in 1943 was completed, which is also known to be the driving force of computing hardware development and one of such use of computers was in communications encryption and decryption.

Charles Babbage 1837 Analytical Engine also used "stored" programs, so he was actually the "father of computer science".

[Mojave]

Ah, but did those earlier computers have Turing style telepathic abilities?

[TomOnTheRun]

It obviously took years before the ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, constructed in the US in 1943

Eniac did not use turing machines and modern algorithmic representations. It is a computer - but not of the modern sort. It was still using Godel's formal language and modular functioning.

Charles Babbage 1837 Analytical Engine also used "stored" programs, so he was actually the "father of computer science"Storage on cards and storage in memory is not the same thing. It does change the size and type of the compuations you are able to instruct it to perform.