Ada's algorithm [electronic resource] : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age / James Essinger.
Essinger, James, 1957-
2014
QA29.L72 E87 2014eb
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Title Ada's algorithm [electronic resource] : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age / James Essinger.
Author Essinger, James, 1957-
ISBN 9781612194097 (electronic book)
1612194095 (electronic book)
Publication Details Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, c2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 254 pages) : illustrations
Call Number QA29.L72 E87 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 510.92 B
Summary "The world's first computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron finally gets credit for her research in this gossipy short biography Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named "Ada," after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century's version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such as Alan Turing began to rediscover her, it slowly became apparent that she had been a key but overlooked figure in the invention of the computer. In Ada Lovelace, James Essinger makes the case that the computer age could have started two centuries ago if Lovelace's contemporaries had recognized her research and fully grasped its implications. It's a remarkable tale, starting with the outrageous behavior of her father, which made Ada instantly famous upon birth. Ada would go on to overcome numerous obstacles to obtain a level of education typically forbidden to women of her day. She would eventually join forces with Charles Babbage, generally credited with inventing the computer, although as Essinger makes clear, Babbage couldn't have done it without Lovelace. Indeed, Lovelace wrote what is today considered the world's first computer program--despite opposition that the principles of science were "beyond the strength of a woman's physical power of application." Based on ten years of research and filled with fascinating characters and observations of the period, not to mention numerous illustrations, Essinger tells Ada's fascinating story in unprecedented detail to absorbing and inspiring effect"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Originally published: London : Gibson Square, Ltd., 2013.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Poetic beginnings
Lord Byron : a scandalous ancestry
Annabella : Anglo-Saxon attitudes
The manor of parallelograms
The art of flying
Love
Silken threads
When Ada met Charles
The thinking machine
Kinship
Mad scientist
The analytical engine
The Jacquard loom
A mind with a view
Ada's offer to Babbage
The Enchantress of Number
A horrible death
Redemption.

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