ADA LOVELACE BY OLSHANSKA NATALIA Early Life Facts

ADA LOVELACE BY: OLSHANSKA NATALIA

Early Life Facts �Born: London, England �Died: 27 November 1852 (aged 36) Marylebone, London, England � Daughter of: Romantic Poet Lord Byron and his wife, Lady Byron �Recognized as an: Analyst. Metaphysician, And Founder of Scientific Computing.

Early Life � A month after Ada was born. Lady Byron left Lord Byron. Shortly thereafter , Lord Byron left England forever. Consequently Ada never met her father. � Lady Byron was determined to raise Ada to be the expect opposite of her father who was a hopeless romantic. Therefore, saw to it that Ada was schooled in Mathematics, and music, as «disiples to counter dangerous poetic tendencies»

Early Life continued �Contrary to the effors of Lady Byron to stunt any characteristics she may have inherited from her father; Ada began to flourish in all subjects and became very imaginative. It was this imagination that let her to produce a design for flying machine. «It was mathematics that gave her life it’s wings»

From byron to lovelace �In July 1835 aged 21, she married William King (10 years her senior). �In 1838 King inharited a noble title and became known as the Earl of Lovelace. Ada Byron King adoped the title as well, and became the countess of Lovelace. This noble title is how we recognize her today as : Ada Lovelace.

The beginning of ada & babbage � Ada first met Charles Babbage shortly after her right royal coming out party. She went, along with her mother, to see what she called his “thinking machine” a portion of his difference engine on display in his drawing room. Babbage was the professor of mathematics at Cambridge, and «both he and Ada, began a voluminous correspondence on the topics of Mathematics, logic, and ultimately All subjects»

Friends gambling and math �In her later years, Ada became an avid gambler, and caused her family great financial grief. �At one point, Ada and Babbage Tried to calculate a surefire way To win the horse races indefinitely.

The analytical engine Unlike the difference Engine which could only calculate, the Analytical Engine could process and store information as well as print out results. Basically, it was a computer. Ada joined Babbage and using her wealth and social standing became the spokesperson for the engine. The Analytical Engine gathered the attention of many individuals across the continent, one of which was a gentelman named L. F. Menabrea.

ABOVE & BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY � As Ada was not only a young married woman, but also a countess, writing and offering her personal opinion on scholarly issues was not considered apart of her duties. � Regardless, Ada took on the challenge, and by the time she was done, her notes surpassed the length of Manabrea`s paper entirely. She included a descriptive of, «step wise sequence of operations for solving certain mathematical problems. » � Writers credit this as being the FIRST published computer program, and this is why we remember her for her efforts today.

Ada Lovelace. Bernoulli Number Proof �It may not look like much, but the first computer program were instructions Ada gave on using the machine to solve the Bernoulli numbers. this moment can describe us time, when Ada was in process of doing the first program in the world.

The Enchantress of Numbers � Ada called herself «an Analyst(& Metaphysician), » and the combination was put to use in the notes. She understood the plans for the Analytical Engine as well as Babbage but was better at articulating it`s promise. She Rightly saw it as what we could call A general-purpose computer. It was Suited for “developing and tabulating any function whatever… the engine The material expression of any indefinite Function of any degree of generelity and Complexity. ”

An interrupted dream �The only part of the Analytical Machine that became a reality was the «mill» which Babbage`s son built and used to calculate, «up to 44 multiples of pi to 29 figures. » �Sadly, Lovelace`s health deteriorated shortly after completing Babbage`s notes on the Engine. She died in 1852 at the age of 36, and the engine was never built in neither her, nor Babbage`s lifetime. � «Today, Ada Byron receives the recognition she deserves. The Department of Defense honored her name by naming a 1979 programming language ADA»

Ada and modern time �Babbage and Lovelace never got to see their invention outside of paper and pen. It wasn`t until the 1940`s that their vision became a reality. �As mentioned in the previous slide, in 1979, the US Department of Defense, «decided to create a standardized computer language to use for it`s applications, they named it ADA in Lovelace`s honour. » �To this day, we still use ADA: air traffic control, planes like the Boeing 77, Subways in NY, as well as in space missions.

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