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National Ada Lovelace Day 2024

Reason to celebrate: October 15, 2024 is National Ada Lovelace Day.

Ada Lovelace Day

Ada Lovelace Day was produced to celebrate among the first female computer developers.  As the daughter from the poet Lord Byron, Augusta Ada Byron, was raised by her mother, Annabella, after he passed. Her mother feared that they would inherit her father’s poetic temperament, and gave Ada a rigid upbringing of logic, science and mathematics. Ada grew to become intrigued with systems and designed steam flying machines, poring within the scientific magazines of times and adopting the British Industrial revolution.In 1833, Ada Lovelace was brought to Charles Babbage whom she assisted to build up a tool known as The Analytical Engine an earlier predecessor from the modern computer. Lovelace and Babbage labored together carefully for several years to be able to refine the Engine. Ada found relative fame in 1842 when she broadened with an article by an Italian math wizzard, by which she elaborated on using machines with the manipulation of symbols. Although Babbage had drew out programs before, Lovelace’s were the most elaborate and finish, and the first one to be released so she's frequently known to as “the first computer programmer”.Ada Lovelace died of cancer at age 36 a couple of short years following the publication of “Sketch from the Analytical Engine, with Notes in the Translator”. The Analytical Engine continued to be an image for a lot of but until Ada’s notes inspired Alan Turing to operate around the first modern computer systems within the 1940′s.Her passion and vision for technology make her a effective symbol for ladies nowadays of technology.

Mathematical winters: Ada Lovelace, 200 years on
Mathematical winters: Ada Lovelace, 200 years on

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Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Exhibit Honors 1st Computer Programmer
Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Exhibit Honors 1st Computer Programmer

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Lovelace at 200: Celebrating the High Priestess to Babbage's machines
Lovelace at 200: Celebrating the High Priestess to Babbage's machines

Padua told the symposium that she drew the initial online cartoon only after being talked into it in a wine-bar by Suw Charman-Anderson, the founder of Ada Lovelace Day. This ended with Babbage and Lovelace turning into super-villains: “I hate ...

Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace Day

Two centuries on from the birth of the world's first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, presenter Zoe Kleinman asks why are there still so few female engineers and technology executives? We hear the travails of three women trying to make their mark, ...

Norway celebrates Ada Lovelace Day with record-breaking coding class
Norway celebrates Ada Lovelace Day with record-breaking coding class

Norway celebrates Ada Lovelace Day with record-breaking coding class. By Alex Wood 13 October 2015. Oslo, 13.10.2015. GirlTechFest at Deichmanske Hovedbibiliotek. Photo: Gorm K. Summary. During Ada's 200th anniversary Norway led the way with a ...

Taking stock of women in STEM on Ada Lovelace Day
Taking stock of women in STEM on Ada Lovelace Day

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In Celebration of Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer
In Celebration of Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer

In Padua's story the two friends complete the gargantuan engine and become an eccentric, techy crime-fighting duo. Scientific American spoke to Padua about the importance of Ada Lovelace Day—celebrated every second Tuesday of October—and Padua's ...

Meet Countess Ada Lovelace, The World's First Computer Programmer
Meet Countess Ada Lovelace, The World's First Computer Programmer

The Department of Defense developed a software language called Ada in the late seventies, and October 13 is Ada Lovelace Day, dedicated to learning about and raising the profile of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Another ...

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