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[โ€“] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Gilles_D@feddit.de 42 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.