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Howard Aiken —
American
Scientist
born on March 09, 1900,
died on March 14, 1973
Howard Hathaway Aiken was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer... (wikipedia)
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.