Because he designed the first mechanical computer.
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Charles Babbage is credited with inventing the first 'automatic calculator' (called the 'difference engine'). It was essentially the first computer - as it could perform its functions without human intervention.
Charles Babbage because he invented the "Difference Engine."
the first computer was created by CHARLES BABBAGE and it was known as the analog computer....
Charles Babbage, Mathematician / Inventor Born December 26, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire UK , Died 18 1871, London; Known as the "Father of Computing" for his contributions to the basic design of the computer through his Analytical Engine . http://www.answers.com/Charles+Babbage?cat=technology&gwp=11&method=3&ver=2.3.0.609 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
There are several men who are considered to be the father of the modern computer. These include Charles Babbage and Alan Turing:Of programmable computers Charles Babbage, (26 December 1791 - 18 October 1871)The first programmer Ada Lovelace, (10 December 1815 - 27 November 1852)Of electronic computers Alan Turing, (23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954)Of some of the logic methods employed by computers George Stibitz, (April 30, 1904 - January 31, 1995)The word algorithm derives from the name of an Arab mathematician Al-Khuwarizmi, (about 790 - about 850).Charles Babbage is also known as the father of computers. He invented the Difference Engine and, the Analytical Engine.The first idea presented about computing machines was given by Al-Khuwarizmi (Muslim mathematician). He presented a circuit diagram, for which he requested the electricians to make that circuit. But due to lack of technology and knowledge the circuit was unable to be completed. For about 100 years, his idea was ignored. But when the people turned towards the idea of old scientists, they made a machine which was known to be the first computer of the world.
It could be debated that John Vincent Atanasoff is the "father of the computer." He built the first electronic computer in 1939 to 1942 as a physics professor at Iowa State University with his graduate student Clifford Berry. Although an electronic computer it was not programmable (i.e. it could only solve one type of problem: solutions of simultaneous equations) and the machine still had some problems that prevented it from fully reaching its performance goals when both Atanasoff and Berry left the university for war related work in early 1942. With increasing classroom needs due to the war the university scrapped the computer (partly because it was just a little too wide to roll out the doorway of the basement room it had been built inside) and converted the room to a classroom.