Ada Lovelace
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Born Augusta Ada Byron on December 10th 1815 as the only legitimate daughter of poet Lord George Bryon and his wife reformer Anne Isabella Milbanke. Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. She was the first to wholly recognise its applications beyond just pure calculations.
Ada as she was commonly known, spent most of her childhood under the care of her maternal grandmother the honourable Lady Judith Milbanke instead of her parents, who had divorced when she was a few months old, with Lord Byron passing away in Greece when Ada was eight. Despite several bouts of illness during her childhood, including measles in 1829 which left her paralysed for nearly a year, Ada took an interest in Mathematics and logic, which her mother heavily promoted in an attempt to disguise her interest in her father, despite struggling to be maternal to her daughter. Ada remained interested in her father however (naming her sons Byron and Gordon) and requested to be buried next to him when she eventually died.
Ada's Education and social exploits brought her into contact with scientists such as Andrew Crosse, Charles Babbage, Sir David Brewster Charles Wheatstone and Michael Faraday as well as Author Charles Dickens. These contacts Ada accrued were promptly used to further her education, which she described as poetical science and herself as an Analyst and Metaphysician. Being interested in his work on the Analytical Machine, Ada being eighteen at the time, met Charles Babbage on June 5th 1833 at one of Babbage's Saturday night Soirees with their mutual friend and Ada's private Tutor Mary Somerville.
In 1835, Ada married William King and three years later he was made Earl of Lovelace, making Ada Countess. Three children followed two sons Byron In 1936 and Gordon in 1839 and a daughter Anne Isabella in 1837 of whose birth Ada ended up suffering a tedious illness that took some time to recover from.
During the years of 1842 and 1843, Ada spent her time translating an article by Luigi Menabrea an Italian Engineer and later prime minister about the analytical engine, supplementing it with seven elaborately detailed notes of her own simply called “Notes”. The notes are important to the early history of computers, since the seventh and last note contains what many consider the first computer program.,,,effectively an algorithm that's designed to be carried out by a machine. Some historians reject this and point out that Babbage's personal notes from 1837 to 1840 contain what could be the first programs for the engine. Ada did however go onto develop a vision of capability of computers that could go beyond mere number crunching and calculation. Whilst Babbage and others merely focused on the machine itself Ada's mindset of “Poetical science” led to her asking the questions about the analytical engine and how both society and the individual would relate to technology as a collaborative tool The Coding language Ada, would eventually be named after her.
Ada died on November 27th 1852 at the age of 36 due to Uterine cancer which lasted months. Ada fell under her mothers influence in that time, and Annabella Milbanke ensuring that Ada never saw any of her friends or confidants in that time, coaxed her into repenting her previous conduct and making Annabella herself Ada's executor. Ada supposedly confessed something to her husband on the 30th of august of that year, which prompted him to leave her. Its not known what Ada admitted to to prompt such a reaction. As requested Ada was Buried next to her father at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire
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