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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 ...
Ada was christened at K. Mallory Parish Church and a significant memorial stands in the churchyard to her. Hinckley is recognised as Ada's childhood home town. She was known latterly as Ada Lovelace and when working with Charles Babbage, she foresaw computerisation, writing the first computer programme.
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.
Ada Lovelace, who corresponded with Babbage during his development of the Analytical Engine, is credited with developing an algorithm that would enable the Engine to calculate a sequence of Bernoulli numbers. [168] Despite documentary evidence in Lovelace's own handwriting, [168] some scholars dispute to what extent the ideas were Lovelace's own.
Lady Anne was a daughter of William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace, and the Hon. Augusta Ada Byron, the world's first computer programmer. Her maternal grandparents were the poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabella "Annabella" Noel-Byron, 12th Baroness Wentworth (née Milbanke). In childhood, she was known as Annabella, after the grandmother for whom ...
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.
An ADA ramp, air conditioning and interpretative landscape elements are coming to the building in Tryon, which became a "National Treasure" in 2018. Nina Simone's Tryon childhood home closer to ...
Anne Isabella, Lady Byron, known as Annabella, had her only child by Lord Byron, Ada (born 1815). Arabella's initial contact with the Byron family was by letter, and she recommended a Miss Lamont, who was Irish, to care for Ada. [12] Miss Lamont joined the Byron home at Kirkby Mallory in 1821. Annabella looked for more discipline, Arabella ...