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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as 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 recognise that the machine had applications ...
Portrait of Ada Lovelace is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the British artist Margaret Sarah Carpenter, from 1836. It depicts the mathematician Ada Lovelace . Lovelace was the only daughter of the poet Lord Byron and his estranged wife, Lady Byron , and was raised by her mother.
— Ada Lovelace, Notes upon the memoir "Sketch of The Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage" by the translator Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, Note A She explains to readers how the analytical engine was separate from Babbage's earlier difference engine , [ 21 ] and likens its function to the Jacquard machine , [ 22 ] in that it ...
William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace, FRS (21 February 1805 – 29 December 1893), styled The Lord King from 1833 to 1838, was an English nobleman and scientist. He was the husband of Lord Byron 's daughter Ada , today remembered as a pioneering computer scientist.
Articles relating to the mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) and her career. Pages in category "Ada Lovelace" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Cake made to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day at a 2013 Edit-a-thon held in Oxford, England. Ada Lovelace Day is an annual event held on the second Tuesday of October to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to STEM fields. It is named after mathematician and computer science pioneer Ada Lovelace. It started in 2009 as a "day of ...
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), wrote the first computer program as part of her work on Babbage's Analytical Engine; María Teresa Lozano Imízcoz (born 1946), Spanish low-dimensional topologist; Sylvia Chin-Pi Lu (1928–2014), Chinese-American commutative algebraist; Katarzyna Lubnauer (born 1969), Polish probability theorist and politician
Twyford Church of England Academies Trust is a multi-academy trust based in West London and affiliated to the London Diocesan Board for Schools.It currently consists of four academies in the London Borough of Ealing: Twyford Church of England High School, William Perkin Church of England High School, Ada Lovelace Church of England High School and Ealing Fields High School.