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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications ...
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
— Ada Lovelace, Notes upon the memoir "Sketch of The Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage" by the translator Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, Note A She explains to readers how the analytical engine was separate from Babbage's earlier difference engine , [ 21 ] and likens its function to the Jacquard machine , [ 22 ] in that it ...
Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers:A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer. Critical Connection. ISBN 0-912647-09-4. Toole, Betty Alexandra, ed. (1998). Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: Prophet of the Computer Age. Strawberry. ISBN 0-912647-18-3.
The Ada Lovelace Award is given in honor of the English mathematician and computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, by the Association for Women in Computing. Founded in 1981, as the Service Award , which was given to Thelma Estrin , it was named the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award , the following year.
Lady Anne was a daughter of William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace, and the Hon. Augusta Ada Byron, the world's first computer programmer. Her maternal grandparents were the poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabella "Annabella" Noel-Byron, 12th Baroness Wentworth (née Milbanke). In childhood, she was known as Annabella, after the grandmother for whom ...
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This machine was to be known as the "Analytical Engine", which was the first true representation of what is the modern computer. [24] Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) predicted the use of computers in symbolic manipulation. Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron) is credited as the pioneer of computer programming and is regarded as a mathematical genius ...