An infinitive is a verbal consisting of the word to plus a verb (in its simplest stem form) and functioning as a noun, adjective, or adverb. The term verbal indicates that an infinitive, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being.
English mathematician Charles Babbage is often referred to as the father of computing.. Babbage invented the first automatic calculator, which is still regarded as a prominent example of precision engineering, in the 1800s. Continue Reading.
Cohen coined the term virus at this point and is considered the father of what we know today as a computer virus. He sums it up in one sentence as a program that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a, possibly evolved, version of itself..