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.