Hello,
I know the 24th was well, yesterday?, but I haven't seen this come
through.
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the
achievements of women in technology and science. Find out more.
There is still time somewhere in the world to contribute something.
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Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was born on 10th December 1815,
the only child of Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. Born Augusta Ada
Byron, but now known simply as Ada Lovelace, she wrote the world’s
first computer programmes for the Analytical Engine, a general-purpose
machine that Charles Babbage had invented.
Ada had been taught mathematics from a very young age by her mother
and met Babbage in 1833. Ten years later she translated Luigi
Menabrea’s memoir on Babbage’s Analytical Engine, appending notes that
included a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with the machine –
the first computer programme. The calculations were never carried out,
as the machine was never built. She also wrote the very first
description of a computer and of software.
Understanding that computers could do a lot more than just crunch
numbers, Ada suggested that the Analytical Engine “might compose
elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity
or extent.” She never had the chance to fully explore the
possibilities of either Babbage’s inventions or her own understanding
of computing. She died, aged only 36, on 27th November 1852, of cancer
and bloodletting by her physicians.
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