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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 ...
Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (née Milbanke; 17 May 1792 – 16 May 1860), nicknamed Annabella and commonly known as Lady Byron, was an educational reformer and philanthropist who established the first industrial school in England, and was an active abolitionist.
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.
Lord Ockham was the eldest son of William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace and his wife, Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer. His maternal grandparents were the poet Lord Byron and Annabella Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth. He gained the rank of officer in the service of the Royal Navy, although he deserted, worked his passage ...
Her translation was published in August 1843, [12] in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, [14] [15] wherein Lovelace's name was signed "A.A.L". [12] [b] In these notes, Lovelace described the capabilities of Babbage's analytical engine if it were to be used for computing, laying out a more ambitious plan for the engine than even Babbage himself had ...
Ada Byron Milbanke, 14th Baroness Wentworth (26 February 1871 – 18 June 1917) was a British peer. Ada Byron Milbanke was the only acknowledged child of the Right Honourable Ralph Milbanke, Baron Wentworth and later Earl of Lovelace , the grandson of the poet Lord Byron, and his first wife Fannie Heriot.
Here is a timeline of what we know of the last movements of the 55-year-old and of the investigation by Norfolk Constabulary into her disappearance.
He was born at 10 St. James's Square, London on 2 July 1839, the second son of William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace and Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer. His maternal grandparents were the poet Lord Byron and Annabella Byron, Baroness Wentworth, 11th holder of the barony of Wentworth.