#ada byron

[blondebrainpowered]

Watercolour portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace also known as Ada Lovelace, ca. 1840, possibly by Alfred Edward Chalon.

Ada Lovelace, is celebrated as the first computer programmer. In the early 19th century, she wrote detailed notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a pioneering mechanical computer.

Among these notes was an algorithm designed to compute Bernoulli numbers, which is recognized as the first published computer program. At a time when computing was an uncharted territory, Lovelace envisioned the potential of machines to perform complex tasks beyond basic arithmetic.

Her foresight and contributions laid the groundwork for modern computer science.

She was also the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

[shugmonkey]

Ada Lovelace. Mathematician and writer, widely celebrated as the world's first computer programmer (With Charles Babbage) Also the daughter of the romantic poet, Lord Byron.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

[anakinsafterlife]

Look what I found at a discount store!! "My first Ada Lovelace" book!!

So excited to read this to the children.

[darkacademiacontent]

You probably know THIS MAN

But, do you know THIS WOMAN?

If you dont...KEEP READING (Especially if you’re looking for a feminine representation ON PROGRAMMING)

okk, lets start from the begining, this BEAUTIFUL AND SMART WOMAN is AUGUSTA ADA KING, know as Ada Lovelace or Ada Byron.

(YES, she is daughter of our great poet Lord Byron!)

But why am i speaking of her? well, SHE studied the machine created by Charles Babbage, and  She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and to have published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.

We are talking about WOMAN being able to do great things in 19th century in a male field!

And HER work was used by ALAN TURING when he was trying to build a computer! Now i ask you: how many times do you see a picture of her or Alan Turing in your history books? the answer is probably NONE! (this i can affirm, after searching over 10 books that i have in my house, and finding none) But you’ll probably find some picture of a guy who use THEIR studies to continue the progress of programming.

SO PLEASE, dont refer her as Lord Byron’s daugther (yes the fact that she is his daugther is FANTASTIC, but dont forget her legacy, she is bigger than a poets daugther) refere her as THE WOMAN who was responsable for the great advance in computing (I don’t want to decreasing man’s work, but sometimes woman and other minorities NEED to feel represented)

If you want read more about her, click here!

Some time ago i was uncertain about following a science career for beein a field almost dominates by man, so i thought that i probably wouldnt fit in, then i quit, but a few months i start to study programm, and i was influenced by HER WORK.

Should I do more posts like this one?

[gogmstuff]

Ada, Countess of Lovelace (from top to bottom):

1832 Ada Byron aged seventeen by ?. From Wikimedia 1544X1868 @400 1.3Mj.

1835 or 1836 Ada Lovelace at age 20 from book at New York Public Library. From writings.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/ via pinterest.com/metermaidpirat/paintings/ 818X760 @300 114kj.

1836 Ada Lovelace in court dress by Margaret Carpenter (UK Government Art Collection, Prime Minister's residence - 10 Downing Street, London UK). From Wikimedia; removed some spots in background with Photoshop 1000X1590 @300 534kj.

1838 Augusta Ada King, Countess Lovelace. From historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Ada-Lovelace/ 631X786 @96 71kj.

ca. 1840 Ada Lovelace possibly by Alfred Edward Chalon (Science Museum - London, UK) photo - A. Stirling. From Wikimedia 2439X3504 @72 3.9Mj.

1852 Ada Lovelace at a piano by Henry Phillips (location ?). From Wikimedia 1508X1837 @400 1.4Mj.

1852 Ada Lovelace at a piano by Henry Phillips (location ?). From Wikimedia 15o8X1837 @400 1.4Mj. This is a photo of an image of a painting printed in a book.

Electricity was known, but not electrons and Ben Franklin had mis-identified that electricity flowed from positive to negative. Against this background, when Charles Babbage proposed an "analytical engine" to do number crunching, all that was available was a machine made of metal. Ada King figured out how to do this, but manufacturing technology wasn't up to doing the job. (At least on a repetitively copied basis. Someone, quite possibly Archimedes, had done it about two thousand years earlier as a one-off with an analog celestial predictor found in a shipwreck near Antikythera, Greece.) If Babbage had thought of the first computer, then Ada is the first computer programmer. World War 2 ships had Babbage/King-type mechanical computers to help aim their guns. A Popular Science film short showed a mechanical computer in use at a university in the late 40s or early 50s preparing graphs of solutions to problems. Steel and precision machining had made the mechanical analytical engine a reality.

An electronic device to solve problems was installed and used successfully at the Royal Codes and Cyphers School, Bletchley Park, during World War 2 as a one-off for breaking Nazi codes. The US started to produce electronic computers in the late 40s that evolved into the device that you're using right now.

[fuzzysparrow]

The Enchantress of Number

Contemporary computers have a history that dates back five millennia to the abacus. Great minds, such as the Greek mathematician Archimedes

Contemporary computers have a history that dates back five millennia to the abacus. Great minds, such as the Greek mathematician Archimedes (c.287-212 BC), developed theories that led to modern calculus and, eventually, to the invention of the computer. The devices we are familiar with today emerged during the 20th century, but the first “computer programmer” lived a century earlier. Not only does that surprise many, but the gender of this programmer also raises eyebrows. Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace, or “The Enchantress of Number”, as the polymath Charles Babbage (1791-1871) called her, went against social norms to study mathematics and receive the accolade of the first computer programmer.

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[sthuntress]

Happy Birthday, Ada Lovelace!

[nighteba]

The first (female) programmer of all time, Ada Lovelace!!!

http://nighteba.deviantart.com/art/Ada-Lovelace-portrait-Augusta-Ada-King-Noel-678148551