Ada Lovelace Day Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of the achievements of women in sc
Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, math, and all related STEM fields.
The celebration is named in honor of English mathematician Augusta Ada King (1815-1852), Countess of Lovelace, known colloquially as Ada Lovelace. Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, is sometimes considered the world’s first computer programmer for the algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage’s analytical engine, one of the world’s first mechanical computers. Over the years there have been historical disagreements over the extent of Lovelace’s knowledge of the subject and the originality of the work she published in her article, “Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes from the Translator,“ but Babbage himself seemed to dismiss such future claims in his memoir.
Read the NY Times Overlooked Obit on Ada Lovelace:
A gifted mathematician who is now recognized as the first computer programmer.
Image credit: Alfred Edward Chalon [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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