Alan Turing has been called the "father of Computer Science", having laid part of the theoretical foundations of the discipline. The epithet "father of the computer" has been variously applied to Charles Babbage, Konrad Zuse, John Atanasoff, John von Neumann, and others, to the point that the phrase no longer has any significance.
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who discribed many elements of the modern digital computer ? who discribed many elements of the modern digital computer ?
Charles Babbage because he invented the "Difference Engine."
Because they store the programs they are running in the same memory as they store the data that those programs are working on.
John von Neumann
John Vincent Atanasoff (ataˈnasɔf) (October 4, 1903 - June 15, 1995) was the inventor of the computer. See "Atanasoff, Forgotten Father of the Computer" (1988) by Clark R. Mollenhoff.