In 1843, an anonymous English author translated an Italian paper about a theoretical computing machine ... of the work’s author: “Lady Lovelace.” Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician ...

Ada Lovelace has been called the world’s first “computer programmer.” In the 1840s, she wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.

But it is the single paper written by Lovelace that makes her the heroine of James Essinger’s book, “Ada’s Algorithm ... of his first calculating machine, the Difference Engine.

Young Ada Lovelace ... 1843), Lovelace translated a paper by Italian mathematician (and later Italian Prime Minister) Luigi Menabrea that describes an automatic calculating machine (aka, a ...

Among these additions were her revolutionary observations that Babbage's machine ... first published algorithm written for a computer, and it's for this reason that Ada Lovelace is often cited ...

At the same time, Lovelace noted that the machine could only follow instructions and not “originate anything.” Ada Lovelace created this chart for the individual program steps to calculate ...

But the love for machines is the foundation of Ada Lovelace's later friendship with mathematician ... for computation of Bernoulli numbers with Babbage's machine - basically an algorithm - which, in ...

A manuscript written by Ada ... Lovelace's translation of a paper written by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea that describes Charles Babbage's plans for his "Analytical Engine" computing machine.

Today we remember Ada ... Lovelace published what would now be recognized as a computer program to generate Bernoulli numbers and was the first to see the creative potential of Babbage's machine.

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer ... Augustus De Morgan at London University about symbolic logic. Lovelace’s algorithm Lovelace drew on all of these lessons when she wrote her computer ...

Ada Lovelace is the consummate misunderstood genius ... Enter James Essinger, whose biography, “Ada’s Algorithm,” seeks to correct the record, paying glowing tribute to the woman he calls ...