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[-] Supervivens@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago
[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

invented the computer and provided significant contributions to ending WWII in the allied nations favour

[-] Gilles_D@feddit.de 43 points 1 year ago

He did not invent the modern computer but contributed significantly to the modern theory of computation. There is no single person who invented the computer, it was a collective effort over decades, if not centuries, ref. Leibniz, Lovelace, Bool, von Neumann, Weizenbaum, and many more.

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