Who is regarded as the "Mother of Modern Computing"?

Gnomon

It could be Ada Lovelace, who wrote the very first computer programs in the world, back in the 19th century, but she is not really the mother of computing, because nothing she did affected anything in modern computing. Her programming was only discovered fairly recently. Another possible candidate is Grace Murray Hopper, who led the team that invented the COBOL programming language. This has been the basis of most modern data processing, so she would be a good choice as Mother. Oct 01 01, 1:21 PM