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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Lovelace (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon; Lovelace, a biopic about the American pornstar Linda Lovelace; Lovelace: A Rock Musical, about the life of Linda Lovelace; BCS Lovelace Medal, British Computer Society award named after Ada Lovelace; Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, a non-profit biomedical research organization
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]
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer is a steampunk graphic novel written and drawn by Sydney Padua.It features Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage in an alternative universe where they have successfully built an Analytical Engine and use it to "fight crime".