Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace

“The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.”

About Her

Ethnicity: British

Birthday: December 10, 1815

Born in: London, Europe

Died in: December 10, 1815

Occupation

Ada Lovelace also known as Augusta Ada King-Noel was the Countess of Lovelace . She was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer which is known as the Analytical Engine.

Achievements

Ada wrote one of the world’s earliest algorithm for the ‘Analytical Engine’, which told the machine to calculate 'Bernoulli numbers'. Ada Lovelace's contributions to the field of computer science were not discovered until the 1950s. Her notes were reintroduced to the world by B.V. Bowden, who republished them in Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines in 1953. Since then, Ada has received many posthumous honors for her work. In 1980, the U.S. Department of Defense named a newly developed computer language "Ada," after Lovelace.

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