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Monday, 10 December 2012

Ada Lovelace's 197th birthday


Today's Google Doodle fantastic achievement some August King, Countess of Lovelace, also known as "Ada Lovelace." She is the daughter of the poet Lord Byron, though he did not have much impact on her life after divorce. Youth There is almost a textbook example of how to grow up on computers. He suffered from various ailments, including headaches terrible and devastating bout with measles, which led him to take a deep interest in education, particularly mathematics, in which he brilliantly.

Some life as a member of the British Society (first as the daughter of Lord Byron, and then as the wife of Earl Lovelace), brought her into contact with Charles Babbage, the concept of mechanical counting machine (computer before), he showed interest. Finally, he explained the work of Babbage's Analytical Engine designs to be credited as the first true programmer in history, even if the computer is programmed it does not really build up to 2002.

He died there in 1852 at age 36, leaving us wondering what the mind can be achieved with all year. It remains a prominent figure for all to admire, though in many ways he is the patron manufacturer of women.Whatever role Adar in the history of programming, he understood the importance of Babbage's invention and understand that mathematics was only a part of it: his hypothesis, for example, the Analytical Engine would be used to write music. This was something very profound to realize in 1840, decades before any of these people who successfully built a computer, let alone one that could compound a tune.

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