The Fathers of Modern Computing

The achievements and contributions of Charles Babbage and George Boole are without a doubt responsible for the conception of modern computing as we know it today. From Babbage's analytics machine, which possessed many of the same components present in today's computers, to Boole algebraic system which serves as the backbone of the modern binary code, both are directly and indirectly responsible for the development of modern computing systems. Their achievements came at a dynamic period of English history, England was changed from a pastoral country to a heavily mechanized one, and the challenges Babbage and Boole faced were fierce. Both, thought their respective inventions, attempted to change the way society views science and challenged the established intellectual order at the time. In the end, history has credited both with the title, "the Father of Modern Computing."…