...Ada Lovelace, born as Augusta Ada Byron, was a genius mathematician. She is known for writing the instructions to the first computer program in the mid 1800’s. Ada created so many computer techniques, and is the first computer programmer. Ada’s parents, Lord George Gordon Byron and Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke did not have a very happy marriage. Lord Byron left England a few months after separating from his wife, and Ada never saw her father again. He then died in Greece when Ada was 8 years old. Ada had an unusual childhood, as an aristocratic girl. Ada's mother forced her to sit still. Lady Byron believed this would help Ada develop self control. Even though such subjects were not common for women to learn in the 1800’s, Ada had tutors...
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...Have you ever wondered who wrote computers codes, who made games possible, and who made it possible for me to write this story? I can tell you the answer to that question the answer is Ada Lovelace. Ada wrote the first published code and experimented with computers. Birth Ada Lovelace entered the world on December 10, 1815 in London. She was the daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Milbanke. she was from a privileged family and received private tutoring just like her mother and did not attend public schools. She studied a range of subjects, but most importantly, she studied math more than anything else which influenced her love for coding and mathematics. The first code. At the age of 17 she met Charles Babbage. Charles...
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...Ada Lovelace was born in 1815, and died in 1852 from cancer. Ada Lovelace was the daughter of a famous poet Lord Byron and Anabella Millbank, who also enjoyed math. Ada’s parents were divorced right after she was born and was never able to meet her estrange father. However, her father corresponded with her mother on her upbringing. Anabella Millbank, Ada’s mother, did not want her daughter to be a poet like her father and did everything possible, pushed Ada night and day, to learn mathematics. Even though Ada’s fond interests were elsewhere, her mother diminished those interests until Ada grew a fondness of math, by no choice of her own. At an early age Ada met with Charles Babbage in London, and with that Ada first learned of the Difference Engine. This is when Ada Lovelace’s eyes grew with enormous content, interest, and enthusiasm of the invention, which was later known as the Analytical Engine. In her twenties, Ada married her husband (several years her age) Earl William King and soon after, she bore three children. After having her children she became engrossed and focused on the formulation of the Analytical Engine, which took several years of extensive work, which she loved. Ada composed a “plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This plan is now regarded as the first “computer program” (Larry Riddle, p. 1). Ada became ill and was diagnosed with cancer of the uterus and died at an early age, like her father, right after her accomplishments. Ada’s achievement...
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...Because the mathematician and computer scientist Ada Lovelace did her work at a time when mesmerism was popular, both mesmerism and the ideas that sparked its popularity had a significant influence on Lovelace’s conceptions of her role as a scientist and on the substance on her work as well. Women in Victorian England were often subject to the belief that they were incapable of true intellectual thought because of inherent differences between their bodies and minds and those of men. For instance, it was commonly thought that women had extremely creative minds, which meant that they could not analyze evidence accurately and therefore could not become intellectuals. However, the supposed creativity of women’s minds resulted in the image of...
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...Augusta Ada Byron, more commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was born on December 10, 1815 to the famous poet Lord Byron and mathematician Anne Milbanke. Her parents one year marriage was short lived as Lady Byron divorced her husband a month after Ada’s birth. Her mother received sole custody, removing Lord Byron out of her life. Ada was raised by her maternal grandmother and servants, however her mother controlled her educational life. She was stern and austere, adamant that Ada was nothing like her poetic father. During these times women did not attend universities, but her aristocratic status allowed her to have private tutoring in subjects such as mathematics, music, French, and science. Her educators included social reformer William Frend,...
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...Ada Lovelace was born in London on December 10th, 1815. Her parents were Lord George Gordon Byron and Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron. They didn’t have a happy relationship, and Lady Byron separated from her husband weeks after Ada was born. A few months later, Lord Byron left England, and Ada never saw him again because unfortunately he died in Greece when Ada was 8 years old. Later on in her life, Ada’s mother hired tutors to teach her science and math. She believed that if Ada engaged in these, it would prevent her from developing her father's moody and unpredictable temper. In 1835, Ada married William King. They had three children together. Ada's health suffered after a case of cholera in 1837. Doctors gave her painkillers and her personality...
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...father never saw her again. It was years later before Ada would have any contact with her sister, Medora Leigh, the daughter of Byron’s half-sister Augusta Leigh. Ada and Medora were told by Ada’s mother that Byron was Medora’s father. Ada’s mother taught her music and mathemathics at an early age and home schooled her as well. Ada also received tutoring in mathemathics and science from William Frend, William king, and Mary Somervilleand Augusta De Morgan. In 1932, Mary Somerville, noted researcher and scientific auther of the 19th century introduced Ada to Charles Babbage and later to her husband. Ada began studying and documenting on Babbage calculating machine, the Analytical Engine. She published the first in-depth paper on programming a computer. In 1935, at the age of 19 Ada married William King, later becoming the first Earl of Lovelace, in which she gained the title the Countess of Lovelace. The couple had three children, sons Byron Noel, Ralph Gordon, and daughter Anne Isabella. Ada became an expert on Babbage’s work by observing his design and asking him questions. In 1842, Luigi Federico Manabrea, an Itilian mathematician at the University of Turin, published a paper describing the function and theory of Babbage’s Analtical...
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...Augusta Ada Byron was born in London on December 10, 1815 and died in Marylebone on November 27, 1852. Augusta Ada Byron goes by Ada Byron, Ada King (her married name), and The Countess of Lovelace because her husband William King inherited a noble title. Ada King’s home life was not the best. Her mother was Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, and her father was a famous poet named Lord George Gordon Byron. Her parents split up only a few months after she was born. It made it hard on her mother having to provide for both of them on one income. Her father moved out of the country when him and Ms. Byron split up. Also, Lord Byron died in Greece when his daughter was only eight. With that being said, Lord Byron was not able to watch his amazingly...
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...Ada Lovelace was the first women and person to write a computer program. Her efforts and work has been a real inspiration to both females and males around the world. Young people look up to her because how young she was when she accomplished many things. Ada Lovelace is a woman I look up to because she tried to challenge herself, was very passionate about the things she did, and her perseverance. First of all, Ada Lovelace was a person who really challenged herself to try things to reach her full potential. Ada Lovelace had many tutors and would study many hours each day to expand her knowledge. This shows that she would really push herself and try to understand many different things. This is because her mother knew that she had potential...
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...Ada Lovelace, the Enchantress of Numbers, is known as a mathematician and the first female computer programmer. She was also an English writer, taking after her father, Lord George Gordon Byron, who was a famous poet. Ada Lovelace lived a short life, filled with unfortunate circumstances, but in that time she made advances in computer science that no one ever had before. Augusta Ada Byron, later known as Ada Lovelace, was born in London on December 10th, 1815 (biography.com). Her parents separated only five weeks after Ada was born because of their relationship issues and overall differences. Ada’s mother, Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, was given full custody of her (agnesscott.edu). Ada’s father then left England and died in Greece eight years later (biography.com). She never saw her father again and never knew him. This is only one example of the unfortunate circumstances in Ada’s life. Although Ada never knew her father, she shared her childhood with her mother. Ada’s fortunate upbringing shaped her into the smart young woman who made incredible advances in computer science. At a young age, Ada's mother insisted on Ada being tutored in advanced subjects like mathematics...
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...calculations till date. The Greeks brought the Pythagorean theory; the Romans brought the Roman Numerals and even the Islam brought the “al jabr” which is known today as “Algebra”. The Chinese brought the remainder theorem and the Indians developed the decimal system, zero and negative numbers, and did early trigonometric work on the sine and cosine. The first computers were calculating machines and over time evolved into the digital computers, as we know them today. It has taken over 180 years for the computer to develop from an idea in Charles Babbage head into an actual computer developed today by many different companies. Therefore, it was a long and tedious path in order to make the computer into what we now use today. However, this paper will focus on Charles Babbage and his contributions to modern day computing technology. This paper will start from his early years and turning point in the world of computers. HIS EARLY YEARS Charles Babbage was an English...
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...Charles Babbage (1791 – 1871) * Creator of the first computer Charles Babbage was born on 26 December 1791, probably in London, the son of a banker. He was often unwell as a child and was educated mainly at home. By the time he went to Cambridge University in 1810 he was very interested in mathematics. After graduation Babbage was hired by the Royal Institution to lecture on calculus. Within two years he had been elected a member of the Royal Society and, with his Cambridge friends, was instrumental in setting up the Astronomical Society in 1820, the first to challenge the dominance of the Royal Society. From 1828 to 1839, Babbage was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. The 1820s saw Babbage work on his 'Difference Engine', a machine which could perform mathematical calculations. A six-wheeled model was initially constructed and demonstrated to a number of audiences. He then developed plans for a bigger, better, machine - Difference Engine. He also worked on another invention, the more complex Analytical Engine, a revolutionary device on which his fame as a computer pioneer now largely rests. It was intended to be able to perform any arithmetical calculation using punched cards that would deliver the instructions, as well as a memory unit to store numbers and many other fundamental components of today's computers. The remarkable British mathematician Ada Lovelace completed a program for the Analytical Engine but neither it, nor Difference Engine 2, were finished...
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...One of the earliest machines designed to assist people in calculations was the abacus which is still being used some 5000 years after its invention. In 1642 Blaise Pascal (a famous French mathematician) invented an adding machine based on mechanical gears in which numbers were represented by the cogs on the wheels. Englishman, Charles Babbage, invented in the 1830's a "Difference Engine" made out of brass and pewter rods and gears, and also designed a further device which he called an "Analytical Engine". His design contained the five key characteristics of modern computers:- An input device Storage for numbers waiting to be processed A processor or number calculator A unit to control the task and the sequence of its calculations An output device Augusta Ada Byron (later Countess of Lovelace) was an associate of Babbage who has become known as the first computer programmer. An American, Herman Hollerith, developed (around 1890) the first electrically driven device. It utilised punched cards and metal rods which passed through the holes to close an electrical circuit and thus cause a counter to advance. This machine was able to complete the calculation of the 1890 U.S. census in 6 weeks compared with 7 1/2 years for the 1880 census which was manually counted. In 1936 Howard Aiken of Harvard University convinced Thomas Watson of IBM to invest $1 million in the development of an electromechanical version of Babbage's analytical engine. The...
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...Abacus emerged around 5000 years ago in Asia Minor and it is still in use in some parts of the world. The word 'abacus' was derived from the Arabic word 'abaq', which means 'dust'. An abacus consists of sliding beads arranged on a rack, which has two parts: upper and lower (see Figure 1.2). The upper part contains two beads and the lower part contains five beads per wire. The numbers are represented by the position of the beads on the rack. For example, in the upper part of the rack, a raised bead denotes 0, whereas a lowered bead denotes digit 5. In the lower part, a raised bead stands for 1 and a lowered bead stands for 0. The arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction can be performed by positioning the beads appropriately. In 1614, John Napier, a Scottish mathematician, made a more sophisticated computing machine called the Napier bones (see Figure 1.3). This was a small instrument made of 10 rods on which the multiplication table was engraved. It was made of the strips of ivory bones, and so the name Napier bones. This device enabled multiplication in a fast manner, if one of the numbers was of one digit only (for example, 6 × 6745). Incidentally, Napier also played a key role in the development of logarithms, which stimulated the invention of slide rule, which substituted the addition of logarithms for multiplication. This was a remarkable invention as it enabled to perform the multiplication and division operations by converting them into simple addition and...
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...A computer is an electronic machine which helps solving problems quickly and easily.It solves problems according to instructions given to it by the computer user. - The first computer was invented in the US in 1969 at the Rowayton Library in Norwalk, CT Invention Nobody knows who built the first computer. This is because the word "computer" used to mean a person who did maths as their job (a human computer). Because of this, some people say that humans were the first computers. Human computers got bored doing the same maths over and over again, and made tools (mostly mechanical calculating devices like abacuses) to help them get the answers to their problems. It is said that the inventor of the 'modern' computer was Charles Babbage. Automation Humans have a problem with maths. To show this, try doing 584 x 3,220 in your head. It is hard to remember all the steps! People made tools to help them remember where they were in a maths problem. The other problem people have is that they have to do the same problem over and over and over again. A cashier used to make change every day in her head or with a piece of paper. That took a lot of time and people made mistakes. So people made machines that did those same things over and over. This part of computer history is called the "history of automated calculation," which is a fancy phrase for "the history of machines that make it easy for me to do this same maths problem over and over without making mistakes." The abacus...
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