ADA LOVELACE
(1815-1852)
BIOGRAPHY
Ada Augusta Lovelace Byron was born in London on December 10, 1815
She was the only legitimate daughter of the romantic poet Lord Byron, but her mother took her at one month old away from her father's home, and later her father died in Greece when Ada was 8 years old, so she did not know him.
Her mother, partly because she was trained in mathematics and partly resentful of the father and her poetic ravings, insisted that Ada receive scientific training and distance her from everything that had to do with literature or art.
Ada was very intelligent for mathematics, music, drawing and languages and received classes from very illustrious people such as William Frend, or Mary Somerville.
She met Charles Babbage in 1833, and was immediately very interested in the calculating machine he was building. Babbage helped him a lot to continue studying mathematics at the University of London.
She married in 1835 with William King, later Count of Lovelace, so she acquired the title of Countess of Lovelace. They had 3 children.
In 1852, Ada Lovelace died of uterine cancer.
LEGACY
Babbage never wrote anything of his inventions, but an Italian engineer named L.F. Manabrea described Babbage’s machine in French, and Ada was asked to translate that text into English. She added many notes of her own to the translation, since she was familiar with Babbage's work, including a description of how Babbage's Analytical Engine would work and how to use it to calculate Bernouilli numbers.
She published the translation and notes under her initials (A.A.L) so that people would not realize that there was a woman under that work and took her seriously, as things were then. Until more than a century later, in 1953, these notes were not rediscovered and Ada identified as the author, considering her as the forerunner of hardware and software.
In 1980, the U.S. Department of Defense settled on the name "Ada" for a new standardized computer language, named in honor of Ada Lovelace.
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