Ada Lovelace Research Paper

With her superb mathematical intellect, Katherine became a “computer” at NASA. On the article called Human Computers found on NASA, “The term ‘computer’ referred to people, not machines. It was a job title designating someone who performed mathematical equations and calculations by hand. Over the next thirty years, hundreds

On Halloween 2003 Bethany Hamilton was surfing on the coast Kauai, Hawaii. She was attacked moments later by a tiger shark. Bethany lost her arm in the attack; she stayed calmed and didn’t freak out. Bethany told others that she had been attacked and her friend’s dad rushed to her to tie off the bleeding stump with his reef guards and got her to shore. Her brother Byron called the ambulance. When the ambulance arrived she was rushed to the hospital. Even though Bethany had lost over half of her body’s blood, the surgery was a success. The doctor

Before NASA’s computers were made from metal and glass, they were made of courage and a mathematician’s brain. In the 1960’s humans sat down with a pencil and a piece of paper to calculate problems. Christine Darden was one of them. She started at Winchester Avenue High School and then went on to Virginia State College.

In 1973, 19-year-old Maria Elena left Colombia and arrived alone in Miami. Speaking just a few words of English. Her goal was to learn 50 new words a day. By talking to people and reading children’s books. Soon she spoke well enough to enroll at Florida International University, earn a computer science degree, and so impressed college officials that they hired her as a programmer.

Ada showed talent for numbers and language from early on, and met one Charles Babbage at age 17, who was also a mathematician (and additionally an inventor). He invented the difference

Ada Lovelace, in full Ada King, countess of Lovelace, original name Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron (born December 10, 1815, Piccadilly Terrace, Middlesex [now in London], England—died November 27, 1852, Marylebone, London), English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer.

Ada understood the working and the potential that went along with the Analytical Machine and had been interested it for 10 years. In 1843, Ada had come to translate a paper written by an Italian mathematician and engineer. She translated the paper from French to English, describing a machine’s function that Babbage invented. According to Ada’s notes, “The distinctive characteristic of the Analytical Engine, and that which has rendered it possible to endow mechanism with such extensive faculties as bid fair to make this engine the executive right-hand of abstract algebra, is the introduction into it of the principle which Jacquard devised for regulating, by means of punched cards, the most complicated patterns in the fabrication of brocaded stuffs. It is in this that the distinction between the two engines lies. Nothing of the sort exists in the Difference Engine. We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.” (p.696) Her notes were published under the initials, A.A.L (Augustus Ada Lovelace). Though her friends knew the initials, by this time her health had

Charles wanted to make plans for a new calculating machine in 1834 called Analytical Engine, but his sponsors refused to support the second machine until the first on was done. In 1842 an Italian mathematician published a memoir in French on the Analytical Engine. Charles asked Ada to translate it and in a nine-month period in 1842-43 she worked on the article.

Ada Lovelace was a child of the famous poet Lord George Gordon Byron. A few months after she was born her father left, and Ada never saw her him again. From early on, she showed a talent for numbers and language. At her mother's insistence, tutors taught her mathematics and science. Ada was also forced to lie still for extended periods of time because her mother believed it would help her develop self-control. Around the age of 17, Ada met Charles Babbage, a mathematician and inventor.Babbage served as a mentor to Ada and she was fascinated by his ideas. Ada was later asked to translate an article on Babbage's analytical engine that had been written by Italian engineer Luigi Federico Menabrea. She not only translated the original French text

Ada’s work with Babbage between 1842 and 1843 was the most compelling of her career. Ada converted works from French to English and interpreted a memoir written by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, who supported Babbage’s Analytical

Ada Lovelace was born on December 10th, 1815 to romantic poet, Lord Byron and Anne Isabelle (nicknamed Annabella) Milbanke. Her parents separated only months after Ada was born. Ada was a very sick child. Around age eight, she suffered headaches so intense they affected her vision. At age 13, she contracted a case of measles, causing her to be paralyzed, confined to bed for a whole year. She did recover, though she had to walk on crutches. Despite being very ill, Ada got an excellent education from tutors, her mother hired. Her mother Annabella was not really concerned with Ada’s education, however. Her main motivation for emerging Ada in math and science was that she was worried Ada would be mentally unstable, like her father the poet. Ada was mostly taken care of my her grandmother, Judith. Annabelle didn’t care much for Ada, even referring to her as “it” in a letter to Judith:

As my eighth birthday was approaching, I knew exactly what I wanted: A personal computer. I didn’t know nearly all of the functionality of such an apparatus at the time; in fact, my young mind probably thought of scribbling rabbits on Microsoft Paint as its primary reason for existence. As I grew up, I figured out the elusive device was not only analogous with entertainment, but it somehow also served to assist my parents at their jobs. To the juvenile version of me, this was fascinating - somehow, I wanted to traverse the vistas of possibilities that this technology offered. Even today, as I alternate between Skype calls and schoolwork on my laptop, I am still beguiled by the capabilities of computers. If technology could be this awe-inspiring, why couldn’t even I learn about its uses and utilize it for the benefit of the greater good? I knew from day one that I wanted to help people, but being able to culminate this desire with my own curiosity of the potential of computer science has influenced my academic choices and will continue to do so when I attend college.

In 1842, Ada Lovelace learned that Charles Baggage had given a series of lectures on his Analytical Engine. Luigi Federico Menabrea had written up the lectures in the French work, Sketch of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. Though Babbage would never build the Analytical Engine, its concept was groundbreaking for the time. It was essentially the first idea for a programmable computer. Ada was so fascinated with the topic that she decided to translate the work into English. Babbage was impressed with her work and asked her “why she had not herself written an original paper on a subject which she is so intimately acquainted” (du Preez 108). At the time, women rarely were able to publish original work. They were usually forced to do as Ada did, merely translate the work of men. Ada successfully managed to circumvent this obstacle by adding a series of notes to Babbage’s original text. Her notes ended up being three times as long as the original, and even corrected many of the mistakes that Babbage had made. He noted that in doing so Ada was able to “enter fully into almost all the very difficult and abstract questions connected with the subject” (du Preez 108). These notes laid out the concept of computer programming and the required elements for a computer language. Unfortunately, Ada was still required to use a pseudonym, her initials A.A.L, in order to get the notes published in journals.

Thirty years after Lovelace's death, the peace on the Analytical Engine was credited to her name. At that time, Lovelace achieved another task that had not been foremost in her mind, but she had accomplished this when women were unable to attend science debates and mathematical meetings. Cambridge University did not admit women at the time, and only by begging mathematicians and scientists women were allowed

The world of Computer Science has always been a fascinating field to me. Right from elementary school when I was taught about the evolution of computers, from the early counting mechanisms using the abacus to the ‘father of computer’s’ difference machine and down to reinventions of various concepts, to what we have now in our modern day world as efficiently serving computers. Also while growing up, I had an Uncle who lived with my family for a while. He was always trying to solve Computer Science related programs. In fact, his room at the time was like a Computer laboratory, with lots of gadgets and resources like infrared enhancing equipment, CPU systems all dismantled into little pieces, lots of books and encyclopaedias on how to be an excellent computer programmer, to different things I could not comprehend at the time but knew they were out of this world.