r to make possible the myriad software applications that are available today.
Key Intersections of Government Activities and the Computer
Charles Babbage is often credited with being the father of the modern computer in that he developed a calculating machine that mechanized the process of arithmetic. He did so over many decades with funding provided by the British government starting in the 1820s, and it was his machine that provided the "proof of concept" that mathematics could be performed by machines. Although personal computers-or even supercomputers-bear little outward resemblance to Babbage's Difference Engine and Calculating Engine, the concepts behind
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