Do you know why the U.S. Department of Defense has a high-level programming language called "Ada"? It relates to the name of Ada Byron, daughter of the famous romantic poet Lord Byron, born in the early 19th century and who, apart from being an eminent mathematician, contributed to the rudiments of computer language. Her maiden name is Ada Byron because she was the daughter of Lord Byron. She was well educated and from a wealthy family.
The year she turned eighteen, Ada began attending the festivities of London high society. At one of her first events she met Charles Babbage, the only person who would share her fascination with mechanics. Babbage was forty-four at the time and was known for, among other things, the mechanical calculator that worked without the help of a human, called the differential machine.
In the spring of 1835 Ada met William, Lord King. He was an aristocrat from a very influential family from a political, social, intellectual, and religious point of view. She married him and they had three children. Later she became Count of Lovelace and hence Ada always signed her works with that name.
In her early years Ada was very happy, but her husband's lack of ambition ended up boring her, so she took refuge in mathematics.
Ada continued to maintain contact with Babbage and despite motherhood and her marriage, managed to maintain an active intellectual life by studying the possibilities of the analytical machine. Ada devoted much of her study to describing in a very technical language how this machine would work, but also offered a series of observations that made clear its theoretical contribution. She clearly distinguished between data and processing; this thought was revolutionary at the time. Ada aspired to create computer science, which she called the science of operations. She realized the practical applications of the analytical machine and even foresaw the digitizing of music with synthesizers.
Ada’s Notes were published in the journal ‘Scientific Memoirs’ in September 1843, entitled "Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage". She signed with her initials A. A. L., but soon it became known who they corresponded to. Being a female damaged her work, as scientists did not take it seriously.
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* VIDA Y OBRA DE ADA BYRON / Lidia Andino Biografías, ISBN: 0000053740007 Edición de 01/2009 en Españo
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