ADA LOVELACE
SHE WAS THE FIRST HISTORY´S PROGRAMMER.
Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, better known as Ada Lovelace. He was born on
a cold Sunday; it was December 10 and the year was 1815. She was the only legitimate
daughter of Anna Isabella Noel Byron and the poet George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron).
She was a British mathematician and writer who developed the first algorithm intended to
be processed by a machine, which is why she is considered the first computer programmer.
His mother, Lady Byron, is the one who stimulated his interest in science and technology.
He had great teachers, such as the astronomer Mary Somerville, who introduced him to the
mathematician Charles Babbage. Thus, was born a close friendship between Ada and
Babbage, a key intellectual stimulus throughout his life. It was he who helped him advance
his speculations on calculus until he conceived a brilliant idea: to build a Jacquard loom
applied to numbers, in other words, a computer.
Between 1842 and 1843 Ada Lovelace translated a French paper describing Babbage's
Analytical Engine written by the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea. Her own friend
also suggested that she fill the newspaper with thousands of words of her own notes
explaining the machine and signed it with her initials AAL to hide the fact that she was a
woman (they were not published under her name until 1953). Ada Lovelace understood that
the Analytical Engine could perform a complex set of mathematical sequences and
operations. One such operation, and example, was how to calculate Bernoulli numbers. The
program devised by Ada, based on Bernoulli's numbers, describes the operations that
Babbage's machine would have to perform to calculate them. This code is considered to be
the first algorithm specifically designed for computers.
Lovelace understood that the Analytical Engine could perform a complex set of
mathematical sequences and operations. One such operation, and example, was how to
calculate Bernoulli numbers. This would be used to program the first computers in the mid-
20th century.
Computer historians consider the example she wrote to be one of the first computer
programs ever created. He also theorized that the analytical engine could be used to operate
on "anything other than numbers," such as musical notes.
Ada Lovelace died in 1852 and only a small part of the Analytical Engine was completed.
After his death, his work was forgotten, until in the 50s all the notes and works that would
facilitate what we know today as computer science came to light. His fame, however,
continues. She was the inspiration for the Ada Lovelace programming language. In
recognition of this, since 2009, the second Tuesday of October has been celebrated as "Ada
Lovelace Day" to make visible the work done by women in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics. Following in Ada's footsteps, many women have contributed
to the first computers and programming languages. Although it has been considered by
many to be the first program/algorithm in history. Consequently, many profiles of the
figure of Ada Lovelace celebrate him as the first-person programmer in history. However,
controversy has remained for years about the extent of Babbage's involvement in the
making of Lovelace's liner notes.
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