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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 ...
Articles relating to the mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) and her career. Pages in category "Ada Lovelace" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Lovelace is depicted in full-length white dress with a red cape over her shoulders. It was painted the year she gave birth to her first child, having married her husband William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace the previous year. [3] The paitiing was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1836. [4]
Her translation was published in August 1843, [12] in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, [14] [15] wherein Lovelace's name was signed "A.A.L". [12] [b] In these notes, Lovelace described the capabilities of Babbage's analytical engine if it were to be used for computing, laying out a more ambitious plan for the engine than even Babbage himself had ...
The book summarizes the contributions of several innovators who have made pivotal breakthroughs in computer technology and its applications—from the world's first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, and Alan Turing's work in artificial intelligence, through the Information Age of the present.
The first documented person to come up with computing is Ada Lovelace, a 19th-century writer and mathematician. Most computing positions were jobs for women and scarcely were men given the role.
James Essinger (born 5 September 1957) is a freelance writer and British author of numerous financial and business management books, but he is better known for his non-fiction books. These include Spellbound: The Improbable Story of English Spelling [ 1 ] and his popular science book on the history of computing, Jacquard's Web . [ 2 ]
(West Ada school district used the right-wing BookLooks.org to find its banned books.) Like their students aren’t technologically savvy enough in this digital world to find their own way to such ...