Computer History

Who is the inventor of the computer?
The computer was invented in 1945 by Charles Babbage. The real answer is that many inventors contributed to the history of computers and that a computer is a complex piece of machinery made up of many parts, each of which can be considered a separate invention.
At 27 tons and the size of an entire room, the world's first computer was the ENIAC or Electronic Numerator Integrator Analyzer and Computer. True to form, ENIAC also makes big noises, cracking and buzzing while performing an equation of 5,000 additions. Before the invention of ENIAC, it took a room full of people to calculate a similar equation. Basic answer 1945!
Charles Babbage invented the analytical engine, a computing device.

Charles Babbage 1791-1871

Charles Babbage developed the analytical engine project after an earlier computing project the difference engine that Babbage started in 1822. The difference engine could solve polynomial equations using a numerical method called the "method of differences". However, the analytical engine was the first general computational device, with the ability to solve different types of equations.
http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/Charles_Babbage.htm

Alan Turing

Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science
Turing provided an influential formalization of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Name Alan Mathison Turing
Born 23 June 1912
London, England
Died 7 June 1954 (aged 41)
Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
Residence England
Nationality English
Fields Mathematician, Logician, cryptographer
Institutions University of Manchester
National Physical Laboratory
University of Cambridge
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Princeton University
Doctoral advisor Alonzo Church
Known for Halting Problem
Notable awards Order of the British Empire
Fellow of the Royal Society
Religious stance Atheist

Inventor of first working programmable computer
1935-1938: Konrad Zuse builds Z1, world's first program-controlled computer http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/zuse.html

Who is the inventor of the computer Mouse? Douglas Engelbart invented point and click computing with the computer mouse
http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/engelbart.html

What are the latest major inventions in computers?
Blue-Ray drives (improved DVD storage).