We know that our lives has been influenced by computer. Charles Babbage is known as Father of Computer. How ever he was lived far before the invention of real computers. We are living in the era of information technology so, we must know about the Father of Information Technology. Is there any certified Father???
My favorite for this title is Charles Babbage who together with Lady Ada Lovelace designed the first modern computer and it seems they understood the potential of it. At their time the mechanical construction of the Differential Machine was too complicated and it never finished successfully. So, it is a "couple" not only "father".
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no "certified" father for sure, but i would add Norbert Wiener to the list of nominees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener
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Claude Shannon - He showed how Boole's logical symbols could be treated as a series of ON or OFF switches and how problems could be solved by manipulating just two symbols, 1 and 0, which could be carried out by electrical switching circuits.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=959253&tag=1
@Thomas, at the time of Charles Babbage; there was nothing like information technology. I mean to say that he did not contribute for information related things and it is quite obvious because computer is the source of information spreading and at that time computer was not even invented. So in my point of view Charles Babbage is not the Father of Information Technology.
In terms of organization IBM regarded most innovative from decades.
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