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Lynn Conway, pioneering transgender computer scientist and activist, dies at 86

Conway was fired by IBM in 1968 for transitioning, but she went on to make major advances in her field, such as revolutionizing the chip design process.

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Ada Lovelace

Why is Ada Lovelace famous?

Ada Lovelace is considered the first computer programmer. Even though she wrote about a computer, the Analytical Engine, that was never built, she realized that the computer could follow a series of simple instructions, a program, to perform a complex calculation.

12-year-old Ada, who is especially interested in mechanics, wants to invent a flying machine - unfortunately, with no success. But the love for machines is the foundation of Ada Lovelace's later friendship with mathematician Charles Babbage, whom she meets at a reception when she is 17. Babbage is working on a prototype of a calculating machine called "The Difference Engine", and Ada is intrigued by his ideas. Ada and Babbage strike up a correspondence over mathematical ideas that lasts for many years.

She also provides her own comments on the text. Her annotations, simply called "notes", turn out to be three times as long as the actual transcript. They show that Ada recognizes the machine's potential beyond a device for numerical calculations. Since the functions of the Analytical Engine are not defined, they can also be applied to other things than numbers. The Analytical Engine, Ada writes 'holds a position wholly its own'. Her vision of a machine that could also process musical notes, letters and images, anticipates modern computers by a hundred years. In her now famous note "G", Lovelace also adds a step-by-step description for computation of Bernoulli numbers with Babbage's machine - basically an algorithm - which, in effect, make her the world's first computer programmer.

In her lifetime, her scientific contributions hardly attracted any attention. It wasn't until the 20th century, with the beginning of the computer age, that the significance of her notes was recognized. Today she is world famous, not least because in the 1970s, the computer language ADA was named after her. For her achievements, she is rightly called a pioneer of modern computer science.

https://www.mpg.de/female-pioneers-of-science/Ada-Lovelace#:~:text=Her%20scientific%20work%2C%20which%20is,computer%20programme%20in%20the%20world.

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Dr. Claude Shannon

(Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1963)

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When Beatrice Worsley died in 1972, Canada lost a computer pioneer and a witness to several great moments in computing history. This biography aims to provide insight into Worsley's obscure, but remarkable and all too short career.

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Tributes to the genius of computer pioneer Doug Engelbart are flooding the web following the announcement of his death at the age of 88. His work transformed the way people use computers today by making them accessible and "personal.  

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Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace) December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852 Known for: Ada Lovelace created the concept of an operating system or software.