Lovelace, Ada(Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace), 1815–1852, English mathematician, b. London as Augusta Ada Byron. The daughter of the poet LordByronand Anne Isabella Milbanke, she was raised by her mother, who had an interest in mathematics and science and introduced her daughte...
This year, our own Ada Lovelace honoree isAfef Feki, System Architect in Mobile Networks RAN R&D. Selected from a diverse pool of 70 candidates, Afef's achievements stood out throughout the selection process. We interviewed Afef to learn more about her journey and celebrate her accomplishments....
At the end of the day, an ‘engineer is an engineer’ and it was mostly about what you knew and what you could do versus limitations based on gender stereotypes or perceived limitations of women in the field.” Paola would complete her undergraduate studies ...
Ada Lovelace: My brain is more than merely mortal - ScienceDirectThe author of the world's first computer program talks, via her letters, about her colleague Charles Babbage, the Analytical Engine and what the future holddoi:10.1016/S0262-4079(12)62633-5Rowan Hooper...
Ada Lovelace died at just thirty-six, but her work strikes a chord to this day, offering clear explanations of the principles of computing, and exploring ideas about computer music and artificial intelligence that have been realized in modern digital computers. Featuring detailed illustrations of the...
Ada Lovelace Day is a profile-raising day for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Write or record something about a woman in STEM on October 15: Ada Lovelace Day in a nutshell Ada Lovelace Day is about sharing stories of women — whether engineers, scientists, ...
Ada Lovelace in Later Years Ada eventually married the love of her life, William King, who would become the Earl of Lovelace, with Ada then becoming the Countess of Lovelace. Together they had three children; Byron, Anne, and Ralph. The family altogether had three homes: a house in Ockham...
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Lovelace devoted just over a year to her only publication, the translation of and notes on Menabrea’s paper about the Analytical Engine. Otherwise, in her life cut short by cancer at age 37, she vacillated between math, music, her mother’s demands, care for her own ...
(In 1843 mathematicianAda Lovelacewrote in her notes for a translation of a French article about the Analytical Engine how the machine could be used to follow a program to calculate Bernoulli numbers. For this, she has been called the first computer programmer.) Another element of programmability...