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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 ...
Ada Lovelace. In 1840, Charles Babbage was invited to give a seminar in Turin on his analytical engine, [12] the only public explanation he ever gave on the engine. [13] During Babbage's lecture, mathematician Luigi Menabrea wrote an account of the engine in French. [12]
The setting describes an alternative historical reality [6] in which Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage have actually built an Analytical Engine and use it to "fight crime" at Queen Victoria's request. [7] Also featured in the comic is the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, whom Padua has called "the Wolverine of the early Victorians". [8]
Ada Lovelace, who corresponded with Babbage during his development of the Analytical Engine, is credited with developing an algorithm that would enable the Engine to calculate a sequence of Bernoulli numbers. [168] Despite documentary evidence in Lovelace's own handwriting, [168] some scholars dispute to what extent the ideas were Lovelace's own.
Ada Lovelace (then Ada Byron) first met Charles Babbage when her mother took her to one of his soirées on 5 June 1832, [6] and the meeting led to a lifelong friendship and collaboration, culminating in Lovelace's notes on the Analytical engine.
Portrait of Ada Lovelace is an 1836 portrait painting by the British artist Margaret Sarah Carpenter depicting the mathematician Ada Lovelace. Lovelace was the only daughter of the poet Lord Byron and his estranged wife Lady Byron and was raised by her mother. A contemporary of Charles Babbage she was one of the pioneers of computer science. [1]
The novel has attracted the attention of scholars, including Jay Clayton, who explores the book's attitude toward hacking, as well as its treatment of Babbage and Ada Lovelace; [5] Herbert Sussman, who demonstrates how the book rewrites Benjamin Disraeli's novel Sybil; [6] and Brian McHale, who relates it to the postmodern interest in finding a ...
The pre-history of such machines is examined in the first episode ("Giant Brains"), and includes a discussion of the contributions of Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, and others. The fourth episode ("The Thinking Machine") explores the topic of artificial intelligence. The fifth episode ("The World at Your Fingertips") explores the ...