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Lady Lovelace
May 14th, 2015
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If you thought that computer programming is recent, it is not. And so many other things are also very old. For example, did you know that Leonardo da Vinci drew the picture of a submarine in 1515? Forget what those NSA goons would have you believe! They have been monitoring your emails and phone calls and therefore you shouldn’t believe them. Like Leonardo Da Vinci, here is a woman of many firsts. Born Augusta Ada Byron in December 10 1815, Lady Lovelace was an English writer, analyst and mathematician in London England. Her work is known through the early mechanical general purpose computer of Charles Babbage. She is often considered as the first computer programmer in the world. She was the only legitimate child to Lord Byron- a poet and his wife Anne Isabella Byron. She had half-siblings because Lord Byron had other children out of wedlock. The father left her mother just after her birth. It is believed that the separation was because he wanted a boy child. He left England for good after four months and died in 1824. Lady Lovelace referred herself as an analyst and poetical scientist. Due to the traditional system regarding the separation, where after a separation the father was to fight for custody of the child, Lord Byron did not seek custody. Lady Lovelace had a young life believed to be of struggle of ill health, poetics, mathematics, subjectivism, objectivism and later bursts of energy. Although her father never claimed the custody, he requested his half sister to be reporting her welfare to him. Her mother ensured that she received the best education by providing private tutors. By the age of 17 Lady Lovelace was a genius in her own mathematics field. She translated an article written in French by Luigi Menabrea, an Italian military engineer. She supplemented the article with elaborate notes, which are present to date. The notes played an important role in the early history of computers. She married William King in 8 July 1835 and had three children. She died from uterine cancer on 27 November 1852 at age 36. She never physically met her father but requested to be buried next to his grave in St. Mary Magdalene church Hucknall, Nottingham. Can you Identify her? Image courtesy of: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace |
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