Essays Tagged: "Ada Lovelace"

Development of Computers and Technology

d, to the World Wide Web, which is a mass of information networked from places around the world. Nowadays, no matter where you look, computers are somewhere, doing something.Changes in computer hardwa ... could be used to control the calculations of the analytical engine, and brought it into his machine.Ada Lovelace was known as the first computer programmer. Daughter of an English poet (Lord Byron), w ...

(14 pages) 360 0 3.5 Apr/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Barriers to female achievement in the field of mathematics

ements throughout the ages have been well recognised and held in high esteem. However, the names of Ada Lovelace, Emmy Noether or Sonya Kovalevskaya are rarely highlighted and brought out for public a ...

(3 pages) 121 3 4.2 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Augusta Ada Byron King

Ada Lovelace was born December 10th 1815 and was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabel ... nd was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabelle Milbanke who separated one month after Ada was born mainly due to Lord Byron's love affair with his half sister. Sadly it turns out Ada nev ... s 'Childe Harold' were very well known at the time:- `Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child! Ada! Sole daughter of my house and of my heart? When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled' And ...

(4 pages) 2036 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Charles Babbage

y Of Manufactures and Machinery.In 1820 Charles Babbage met Lord Byron, the poet, and his daughter, Ada Augusta King, also known as Lady Lovelace.Lady Lovelace was a mathematician herself. She underst ...

(3 pages) 2678 0 0.0 Dec/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

History of computers

a poor communicator and record-keeper, his difference engine is sufficiently developed by 1842 that Ada Lovelace uses it to mechanically translate a short written work. She is generally regarded as th ...

(7 pages) 14 0 0.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Investigation into the Father of Computing Charles Babbage

at we now consider modern computing”. Somebody who stood strongly by Babbage was a lady called Ada Lovelace, who many argue was one of the very few people who actually understood Babbage and his ...

(5 pages) 2438 0 0.0 Feb/2010

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Computer

functional computer.Then in the late 1880s. Herman Hollerith invented the recording of data on a readable machine. Earlier uses of the machine has been mostly for control, not data. After some trials ...

(3 pages) 2 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays