I've always understood "Father of <some industry>" to be fluid, and usually there's more than one possible figure. Turing, or Babbage, or Shannon, etc could all be called that. One organization thinks Turing is the father. So?
Who really cares?
Also Konrad Zuse, frequently ignored in the anglosphere. He is one of ~two people with a credible claim to building the first freely programmable (Turing-complete) computer. His first few computers were mechanical, later models electrical.
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I've always understood "Father of <some industry>" to be fluid, and usually there's more than one possible figure. Turing, or Babbage, or Shannon, etc could all be called that. One organization thinks Turing is the father. So? Who really cares?
Also Konrad Zuse, frequently ignored in the anglosphere. He is one of ~two people with a credible claim to building the first freely programmable (Turing-complete) computer. His first few computers were mechanical, later models electrical.
Going back even further, I'd argue Gottfried Leibnitz was one of the first to grasp the fundamental problems of building a computer.