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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 ...
Fry has presented several BBC television programmes. In 2015, she presented a BBC Four film biography of Ada Lovelace. [28] In 2016, she co-presented Trainspotting Live with Peter Snow, a three-part series about trains and trainspotting, for the same channel. [29] In the BBC Two series City in the Sky Fry studied the logistics of aviation. [30]
Directed by local video artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, Conceiving Ada is a fanciful, multilayered experiment about two women who connect through cyberspace across the divide of time and discover some remarkable parallels between their lives." [3] On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 82% based on reviews from 11 critics. [4]
His one child conceived within marriage, Ada Lovelace, was a founding figure in the field of computer programming based on her notes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. [10] [11] [12] Byron's extramarital children include Allegra Byron, who died in childhood, and possibly Elizabeth Medora Leigh, daughter of his half-sister Augusta Leigh.
The Betsy-Tacy Houses are a pair of historic houses in Mankato, Minnesota that were the childhood homes of author Maud Hart Lovelace and her childhood friend, Frances Kenney. Lovelace used these houses as inspiration for the settings of her "Betsy-Tacy" book series. The houses are owned and operated together as a museum by the Betsy-Tacy Society.
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: Mathematical genius Ada Lovelace must get help from Peabody to fix up her disorganized life if she is ever to help Charles Babbage create the world's first computer. Historical Figures: Hypatia , William Herschel , Ada Lovelace , Charles Babbage
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.