Ada Lovelace
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Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician from the 1800s who made important early contributions to computing by writing detailed notes about how machines could process information symbolically. Her work is considered foundational to computer science because she conceptualized ideas about computation that went far beyond what her contemporaries understood about mechanical calculation.
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- Born
- 10 December 1815
- Died
- 27 November 1852
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- 3
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- Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq
- Little People, Big Dreams Series 1 & 2
- Ada
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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 work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. She was the first to recognise the machine had applications beyond pure calculation. Lovelace is often considered the first computer programmer.
Lovelace was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron and reformer Anne Isabella Milbanke. Lord Byron separated from his wife a month after Ada was born, and died when she was eight. Although often ill in childhood, Lovelace pursued her studies assiduously. She married William King in 1835. King was a Baron, and was created Viscount Ockham and 1st Earl of Lovelace in 1838. The name Lovelace was chosen because Ada was descended from the extinct Baron Lovelaces. The title given to her husband thus made Ada the Countess of Lovelace.
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